Though it�s intended mainly for use as a neighborhood garden in cities, you could also build a Growroom for your own backyard, a spokesman told HuffPost. (Friday February 17th, 2017 — Huffington Post - USA)

What an amazing community day on Saturday assembling these beautiful new desks that will serve the children for many years. A fine example of community cooperation. Pasadena Waldorf School expresses its thanks to All the PWS parents who made these possible. (Tuesday February 14th, 2017 — Pasadena Now - California USA)

Diane Watkin, a Biodynamic Consultant, followed the story of Biodynamics in and around Sydney, interviewing a vast array of growers, farmers, restaurateurs, market stall holders, wine producers, school teachers, shop owners, butchers, bakers and health professionals. FIVE HUNDRED the film portrays a lively and substantial industry based on Biodynamic farming. Interviewees in the film claim it holds real solutions to repairing the environment the world over. (Tuesday February 14th, 2017 — Lithgow Mercury - Australia)

In the Netherlands, every electric train running on the Dutch railway network has relied entirely on wind energy since 1 January. The network, NS Dutch Railways, is using an energy company’s turbines to generate the energy needed to power its entire electric fleet. (Monday February 13th, 2017 — Daily Kos - USA)

Coming to understand the interconnectedness of all elements of the farm, the cows, the vines, the microscopic life in the soil, minerals and the moon, is the most interesting part of biodynamic farming. (Saturday February 11th, 2017 — Local Xpress - Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada)

For the middle school students of the White Mt. Waldorf School this dictum from Archimedes resonates with new meaning thanks to David Shedd, stone-mason extraordinaire, who introduced these students, in a very practical way, to a variety of simple machines. The goal: fashion a granite step for the walkway leading to the classroom, using only levers, pulleys, inclined planes and wedges. (Thursday February 9th, 2017 — Conway Daily Sun - North Conway, New Hampshire USA)

One aspect of Waldorf education that is so wonderful and valuable, in my estimation, is the inclusion of the arts throughout the curriculum. (Thursday February 9th, 2017 — Conway Daily Sun - North Conway, New Hampshire USA)

Fetzer Vineyards has announced the hiring of Sebastian Donoso as winemaker with a focus on wines crafted from organic and Biodynamic grapes. (Tuesday February 7th, 2017 — North Bay Business Journal - Santa Rosa, California USA)

The source of the unusual whistle turned out to be an unimaginable treasure: a rare cave-dwelling frog that had not been seen in over 50 years. This is Arthroleptis troglodytes, also known as a �cave squeaker.� Becker took the first photos of the species ever. (Tuesday February 7th, 2017 — Huffington Post - USA)

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)