When you eat food that comes from a local farm that cares about its soil, you begin eating food that was grown with the purpose of strengthening and fortifying your body and mind. Biodynamic farms go beyond organics by not only not using harmful chemicals, but by also putting nutrients back into the soil which the plants can take up into themselves for people to eat and then take up into themselves. (Wednesday February 1st, 2017 — Macon County Times - Lafayette, Tennessee USA)

And, in just a few more years, the 30-meter Magellan telescope in Chile’s bone-dry Atacama desert will begin operations and the science returned from those mighty eyes is expected to be incredible. (Tuesday January 31st, 2017 — Daily Kos - USA)

Saturday marked the start of Chinese New Year, and five students at Monadnock Waldorf High School in Keene are readying to celebrate the Year of the Rooster with the community. On Feb. 4, the students, who are all from China, will bring their home traditions to a dinner celebration at the Monadnock Waldorf Elementary School, on South Lincoln Street in Keene, which is open to the public. (Sunday January 29th, 2017 — The Keene Sentinel - Keene, New Hampshire USA)

Students from the Sandpoint Waldorf School spent the day Monday helping out area seniors as they embarked on a community service project for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. In addition to going to the homes of area seniors to to shovel snow, the fourth- through eighth-graders shoveled out the huge berms at the Sandpoint Area Seniors, Inc. and DayBreak Center parking lot on Main Street. They cleared the sidewalks and area where the benches and peace pole are located by the "SASi Elder Tree," as well as cleared the ice from the wheelchair ramp. (Thursday January 26th, 2017 — Bonner County Daily Bee - Sandpoint, Idaho USA)

Referred to as an "intentional" community, Camphill Village Kimberton Hills, established in 1972, is an agricultural and handcrafting community that includes adults with varying levels of special needs. "Everyone that lives and works here, does so by choice," said Brendan Tracy, grants manager at Camphill. "Folks with and without disabilities live side by side and life share." (Wednesday January 25th, 2017 — Reading Eagle - Reading, Pennsylvania USA)

Pesticides will be banned in all public green spaces from Sunday (January 1, 2017) while non-professional gardeners will no longer be able to buy pesticides over the counter. (Wednesday January 25th, 2017 — Organic Consumers Association - Finland, Minnesota USA)

2017 is already off to a great start–for wine lovers–with new releases of the best organic wines to sip, swirl, and savor. (Tuesday January 24th, 2017 — Organic Authority )

“Why not orchestrate a social movement around natural highs: around people getting high on their own brain chemistry – because it seems obvious to me that people want to change their consciousness – without the deleterious effects of drugs?” (Tuesday January 24th, 2017 — abc.net.au - Australia)

An incredible study of fish behavior by a team of marine biologists led by Redouan Bshary proves once and for all just how clever fish really are. Here are five complex behaviors which he observed and documented: (Sunday January 22nd, 2017 — Care2.com - USA)

A new public charter school is opening this fall in Fairbanks, and it’s going to be unlike any of the other public schools. The curriculum is based on the Waldorf philosophy, and the school will take a slower approach to helping students meet state standards. (Friday January 20th, 2017 — Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - Fairbanks, Alaska USA)

Before the event began, he met to reveal how an immersion in biodynamic agriculture and wine production changed his life. (Thursday January 19th, 2017 — Forbes - USA)

This week, conservationists will release 23 scimitar-horned Oryx dammah into the Ouadi-RimĂ© Ouadi-Achim Faunal Reserve in the African nation of Chad, reports New Scientist. They will join the 25 oryx released into the grasslands in August, boosting the population of an animal that went extinct in the wild in the 1980s. (Wednesday January 18th, 2017 — Smithsonian online -USA)

The royal has previously lambasted climate skeptics, famously referring to them as the “headless chicken brigade.” (Tuesday January 17th, 2017 — Huffington Post - USA)

This exhibit of student art represents social justice topics young people face both inside and outside of school, and was created to help the deepen the understanding of ongoing struggles experienced by students on issues of race, gender, class, sexual orientation, religion, learning ability and more. (Tuesday January 17th, 2017 — Akronist - Akron, Ohio USA)

Waldorf School of Saratoga Springs volunteered to knit and crochet scarves for the homeless. (Monday January 16th, 2017 — The Saratogian )

Children, families and faculty of the Detroit Waldorf School in Indian Village have been passionately knitting scarves and hats and sewing baby bibs for children and families living at COTS (Coalition on Temporary Shelter). (Sunday January 15th, 2017 — Fox 2 Detroit - Detroit, Michigan USA)

For the first time, scientists have captured footage of a rare sea dragon ― a creature so otherworldly it appears not even the creative mind of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling could have dreamed it up. (Friday January 13th, 2017 — Huffington Post - USA)

Dutch national railway company NS has announced that along with the electric company Eneco, they have been able to begin running all of their trains, since the turn of the new year, using wind-generated energy. (Friday January 13th, 2017 — Daily Kos - USA)

Astrological enthusiasts, devoted star sign disciples, and even casual horoscope perusers, lay down your corkscrews. The moon’s movement could be having an impact on the taste of your merlots, rieslings, and rosĂ©s—and you didn’t even know it. The theory behind this shift in flavor lies in something called the biodynamic calendar, a guide used for the planting and sowing of crops that is divided into four types of days: fruit days, flower days, leaf days, and root days. (Friday January 13th, 2017 — Munchies_ Food by VICE )

What controls forest diversity is not the trees but the fungi that interact with them, typically at microscopic scales, below ground and out of sight. The result offers a new window on the complex interactions that underlie some of the most familiar ecosystems on the continent and could lead to improved forest-management practices. (Thursday January 12th, 2017 — The Globe and Mail - UK)