Across the planet, Indigenous communities, from the Heiltsuk in British Columbia, to the Powhatan on the Chesapeake Bay on the United States’ Atlantic Coast, to the Māori in New Zealand, have successfully stewarded the sea for thousands of years. These communities avoided diminishing their productive sea gardens despite, in some cases, seeing harvests that rival modern commercial fisheries. (Monday July 25th, 2022 — Smithsonian Magazine - Washington DC USA)

“Demand for vegan, organic and biodynamic wines has grown as more consumers adopt eco-conscious and healthier lifestyles. It’s great to see that the desire for top-quality vegan-friendly wines is growing so strongly and we have every reason to believe that this will only continue to rise, creating a great opportunity for Virgin Wines to capitalise on this growing sector”. (Monday July 25th, 2022 — Wales Online)

Christian receives ongoing training in biodynamic culture from the Spanish biodynamic federation and follows great philosopher Masanobu Fukuoka's inspiring way to carry out balanced and sustainable agriculture. (Monday July 25th, 2022 — Yahoo Finance)

Octopuses are problem-solvers, mischief-makers and notorious escape artists. They also appear to have a rich inner life – so what is it like to be an octopus? (Sunday July 24th, 2022 — BBC online)

Biodynamic farming based on the teachings of Rudolf Steiner (of the Steiner Schools) is the next level. Biodynamics follows the phases of the moon and has some scientifically dubious methods, but grape quality seems to improve further. (Friday July 22nd, 2022 — Irish Examiner)

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature added the migrating monarch butterfly for the first time to its “red list” of threatened species and categorized it as “endangered” — two steps from extinct. The group estimates that the population of monarch butterflies in North America has declined between 22% and 72% over 10 years, depending on the measurement method. (Thursday July 21st, 2022 — Huffpost)

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)