Initiatives such as the Wanderschule show that active work connects people and can be a bridge across all differences.
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The international active Wanderschule supports biodynamic development in many countries of the world. An important concern of our work is to gain independence from European companies and markets and to find ways of biodynamics and regional cooperation that suit the own culture. It is the diversity of approaches that opens up the possibility of learning…
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A strong biodynamic community is emerging in Turkey MMehmet Unal, responsible for the Demeter control of Aydin Gülyagi’s rose farm, asked me a few years ago: “How can I better understand biodynamic agriculture?” That was the initial impulse for the founding of Wanderschule. Since then we have been supporting the committed pioneers in their biodynamic…
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For more than 20 years Reto Ingold has been on a consulting mission in South-Eastern Europe. He has come to the sobering realisation that the biodynamic pioneers are completely focused on their contacts with purchasers in Western Europe. So far they have hardly noticed each other. He reports. The wish for a mutual meeting of…
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In Tunisia, small farmers dominate the agricultural landscape. However, they are entirely dependent on export companies. The Wanderschule supports the strengthening of smallholder structures through networking and educational opportunities so that, in addition to know-how, motivation for alliances is formed. This is an important precondition for the smallholder “groupements” to take up the biodynamic impulse…
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South Africa’s biodynamic movement was shaped by Jeanne Malherbe, whose work can still be experienced today, especially in the many biodynamic wineries. There is an extremely active biodynamic movement in South Africa, which is making fascinating efforts to educate young people. Helen van Zyl is tirelessly engaged in the sense of this particular task. Because…
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by Hans Supenkämper
In this picture book I try to express and make visible something of one of my “Guidelines”, something that lives, so to say, between the lines, in the eyes and hearts, in the ideas and intentions of the people, in the moods of the landscape, in the elements.
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by Hans Supenkämper
In Turkey I came across Yusuf and Kenan Aydin’s farm where roses are cultivated for essential oil. Having seen many other rose fields in many other countries, it was very clear that these roses from the small rose village of Ardicli were the very best I had experienced. Fortunately, Yusuf can speak German because he lived with his family in Cologne for many years. So we were able to communicate and exchange in German.
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Tune In The Rhythms Of Cosmos, Nature And Life HOW TO WORK WITH THE BIODYNAMIC SOWING CALENDAR Since we started working on the Agricultural Course at the RUMI Centre on Arzu Duran’s farm near Istanbul in 2019, an ever growing group of people has come together to share their interest in the biodynamic work. There are currently…
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PROJECT FOCUS AGRICULTURE & NUTRITION The Free International Wandering School of Biodynamic Agri-Culture has made it its goal to bring Demeter agriculture into the world – free of charge and without economic interests. “Sales of Demeter products in Germany and other European countries have risen significantly in recent years, while domestic production has almost stagnated.…
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