As climate change continues to become a hot topic with record-high temperatures being set, Cape Coral-based health food supplement company Mercola is hoping to do something about it by promoting biodynamic farming. (Thursday July 21st, 2022 — Gulfshore Business)

Esrawe Studio collaborated with architect Francisco Pardo to design the world’s first biodynamic tequila distillery, envisioned crowning the top of an extinct volcano in Los Altos de Jalisco, Mexico. The project is at the heart of a new agro-tourism ecosystem that weaves along a continuous corridor of sustainable agriculture and free-range. In addition to the distillery, the ‘Biodynamic Community’ proposal will be home to a carefully tended extension of biodynamic agro-ranching, agro-tourism, natural hot springs, ranches, ethnobotany for homeopathic products, regional cuisine from edible gardens, sale of homegrown products, workshops for the practice and teaching of traditional crafts, a cultural center, and school, artist residency, and seminars. (Thursday July 21st, 2022 — Designboom )

The crew of Grain de Sail, a sailboat carrying a load of French biodynamic wines—without the carbon emissions of a cargo ship—hoists the mainsail and floats into town. (Monday July 18th, 2022 — The New Yorker)

Relocating to New Jersey after marrying and having daughter Melanie, Anderson embarked on her first career as a fiber artist, weaving basket forms. “It became my new passion. I exhibited my artwork all around the country,” she says. Still interested in gardening and the symbiotic relationships of plants, earth and humans, Anderson started studying biodynamics. “It’s essentially homeopathy for the earth,” she says. A new career was born. (Monday July 18th, 2022 — New Jersey Monthly Magazine)

“When I started trying the wines, I thought, ‘This is amazing,’” says winemaker Jason Charles, who owns and operates Vinca Minor with his wife, Emily. He trained at a biodynamic winery in Bordeaux before he opened his own label in Berkeley. “You could feel something, taste something that was real. It was electric. It was vibrant.” (Saturday July 16th, 2022 — Wine Enthusiast Magazine)

n the last few years, I couldn’t help but notice rave comments about Harashim Winery. They were the first Israeli winery to make wine according to a biodynamic protocol. (Saturday July 16th, 2022 — The Jerusalem Post)

The announcement, made Friday by the International Olympic Committee, 110 years to the day of Thorpe’s decathlon victory, reverses what many consider to be among the great injustices in sports. The IOC stripped Thorpe of his gold medals and erased him as the winner of both events a year after the Stockholm Games because he violated the Olympics’ amateurism rules by being paid to play minor league baseball games in the summers before the Olympics. (Friday July 15th, 2022 — Washington Post - Washington DC USA)

With biodynamics, it is a full philosophy of looking at the entire ranch system. It's a more spiritual approach. And by doing things like burying horns and making all kinds of preparations you're actually trying to regenerate the land in your environment. And we've seen that too. We see more birds coming back, more wildlife right next to the Russian River. That's really our mission and goal by going biodynamic—we're really trying to improve the environment. (Friday July 15th, 2022 — Wine Spectator)

Chimpanzees are incredibly intelligent. The apes have been observed working with tools and can communicate with complex vocalizations consisting of hoots, grunts or roars. Most often, young chimps learn tool use and other behaviors from their elders through social learning. Now, researchers have observed a community of wild East African chimpanzees digging wells after observing the skill from an immigrant chimp from another group (Wednesday July 13th, 2022 — Smithsonian Magazine - Washington DC USA)

The P'urhépechas were the only indigenous group in Mexico the Aztecs failed to conquer – but despite that feat, they were nearly lost to history. (Monday July 11th, 2022 — BBC online)

Staple crops like potato and sweet potato have long been seen as emergency crops for the poorest because they are quick to mature, can fill in the gap between cereal harvests and provide accessible and affordable calories. Yet the current global food crisis shows how these crops can play a foundational role in creating more resilient food systems before shocks and stresses hit. (Friday July 8th, 2022 — All Africa)

Why it matters: Water played a key role in the formation of planets — and the emergence of life that evolved on at least one world thereafter. "Asteroids at some level were carriers of water throughout the solar system," says Kevin Walsh, a scientist at the Southwest Research Institute who studies asteroids. The "children and grandchildren" of these asteroids that have drifted closer to Earth can be studied to infer more about primordial asteroids that first transported water, he says. Signs of water can be spotted in asteroid material chemically altered when the rocks and dust interact with water. (Thursday July 7th, 2022 — Axios.com)

Biodynamic winemaking has had a short but impactful history in the UK, specifically England and Wales. While vineyards have been utilising aspects of organic and biodynamic practices for decades, in 2010 Sedlescombe Vineyard in East Sussex released the UK’s first ever certified biodynamic wine. While their scale remains small (many are operating off no more than a few hectares and producing at the most around 2,000 bottles a year), these winemakers’ vision is substantial. (Thursday July 7th, 2022 — Wicked Leeks - Riverford Organic Farmers, UK)

The improvement has resulted in an uptick of dolphins and their main source of food - bunker fish or menhaden. While there are several hypothesis about why dolphins may be increasing in the area, it's expected that the increase in menhaden might be the key, according to Sarah Trabue, a WCS research assistant. (Thursday July 7th, 2022 — Daily Mail - UK)

Austrian educationalist Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) had many hats. As well as being an educational reformer, he was an architect and a scientist who founded the biodynamic approach to agriculture, warning farmers that the widespread use of chemical fertilisers would lead to the decline of soil, plant and animal health and the loss of nutrients in food. (Tuesday June 28th, 2022 — Nursery World)

Jeevan Angelo McKnight ... Until 10th grade, McKnight attended Ann Arbor’s Skyline High School, where he was on the wrestling team and said he racked up a few concussions. Now, he is homeschooled, but more important for his aims was his stint at the Rudolf Steiner School, where he developed a passion for the arts, painting and singing. (Saturday June 18th, 2022 — MLive.com Michigan, USA)

In Michigan’s still-young but expanding wine industry, there’s always room for people who want to try something new, challenge the norm and push boundaries. Include BOS Wine among those innovators. New to the state’s flourishing wine scene, with a tasting room far off the beaten trail, BOS Wine offers customers something entirely new: A menu that highlights both Michigan and California wines, as well as seated tastings (so far, a fairly new practice at tourist-driven wineries) at its location in Elk Rapids. (Thursday June 16th, 2022 — Second Wave Media)

But by sequencing her entire genome, and setting it next to the historical specimen collected in 1906, researchers this week confirmed that the tortoises, a century apart, were of the same long-considered-extinct lineage: The fantastic giant tortoise — “with a current known population size of a single individual.” That means she’s considered an “endling,” or the last known individual in a species or subspecies. (Thursday June 16th, 2022 — Washington Post - Washington DC USA)

But now researchers have found a new genetic population of polar bears in Greenland that don’t rely on sea ice to hunt, rewriting how we think about the sea bears and their ability to adapt to a warming planet. ... Much of the population’s uniqueness comes from their remote location in the southeast corner of Greenland. (Thursday June 16th, 2022 — Washington Post - Washington DC USA)

The Wrekin is not certified biodynamic, but cow pat pits, and the rhythmic - then chaotic - stirring of preparations, according to the lunar cycle, are key to this extraordinary property. On the surface, visitors to The Wrekin see a happy cow and a picturesque patchwork of vines, interspersed with an olive plantation and duck-laden pond, park-like hillsides of oak and sequoia, groves of native trees, and a backdrop of golden hills, where Jan and her husband Andrew farm beef and superfine merino. (Wednesday June 15th, 2022 — Rural News Group - New Zealand)