A step beyond organic: Two Nebraska farms embrace biodynamic agriculture While organic farming mainly focuses on farming without synthetic chemicals, biodynamic agriculture takes it one step further. �For the certification for biodynamic, you look at the whole farm,� Lunquist said. (Sunday March 5th, 2023 — Lincoln Journal Star - Lincoln, Nebraska USA)

Was Wassily Kandinsky Influenced by Hilma af Klint? [Rudolf] Steiner was a well-known figure in Europe and the United States, touring both continents with a series of lectures. Hilma af Klint attended at least one of them in Stockholm. It was soon after the lecture that af Klint wrote Steiner a letter inviting him to her studio to see her paintings. Guided by the invisible forces, af Klint nevertheless had little understanding of how to interpret her own works and needed spiritual guidance from someone more experienced. (Friday March 3rd, 2023 — TheCollector)

Winners of snow sculpture contest showcase creations at Anchorage Fur Rondy Eight kids from the Anchorage Waldorf School came up with the idea for the winning sculpture in the schools� category, �The World Is In Our Hands� and carved hands holding planet Earth almost levitating above. (Monday February 27th, 2023 — Anchorage Daily News - Alaska, USA)

Environmental Hero: Leydy Pech Born and raised in Hopelch�n, a city in the Mexican state of Campeche where beekeeping is an essential part of the Mayan culture, Leydy Pech learned about her ancestral legacy when she was young and started taking care of the land. The practice of beekeeping for rare native bee species goes back 3,000 years and is what protects the Campeche forests. She is a member of an agroforestry cooperative run exclusively by Mayan women. (Friday February 24th, 2023 — BBC online)

The Benefits of Teacher Looping Moving up a grade together can benefit both teachers and students. (Friday February 24th, 2023 — USNews.com)

Upper Black Eddy Teacher Celebrated for Her Unique Methods of Teaching Language River Valley Waldorf School, located at 1395 Bridgeton Hill Road in Upper Black Eddy, is celebrating one of their educators for their teaching methods. Ivone Martinez, known as �Profesora Martinez� by students and staff, teaches Spanish to her students and uses fun and engaging teaching methods to instill important lessons. (Friday February 24th, 2023 — BUCKSCO.Today - Bucks County, Pennsylvania USA)

How Eco Terreno Is Bringing Wine Country To San Francisco With Its New, Upscale Urban Tasting Room Mark Lyon, founder and owner of Eco Terreno Wines and Vineyards, one of the few leading Biodynamic and organic certified vineyards in the US, launched the Eco Terreno brand in 2012 (Thursday February 23rd, 2023 — Forbes)

david altrath photographs 'villa mediterraneo' gazing over ibiza through bamboo screens �Villa Mediterraneo', a dwelling in Ibiza designed by Italian studio Metroarea Architetti Associati. The house is built to harmonize with its site while paying tribute to its architectural influences from the Roman villa, Spanish, and Arab heritage. It is designed with a contemporary expression that honors the natural lexicon of Italian expressionism, an homage to renowned architect Rudolf Steiner. (Monday February 20th, 2023 — Designboom)

Midstokke: Education outside is part of a holistic solution There is nothing surprising in the recent raft of studies reaching the same conclusion: Education in the outdoors (time in nature, green space, green bathing) improves educational, physical and mental health outcomes for children of all ages. What is surprising is that we have policy and practices that actively reduce the availability of and access to these methods of education. (Thursday February 16th, 2023 — The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Washington USA)

Get your garden in tune with the environment by going biodynamic �It�s part methodology, part philosophy,� says Maggie Hyde, co-owner of Wisconsin�s Petal Back Farm, which incorporates biodynamic practices in growing its floral crops. �The biodynamic garden should be thought of as an organism. The idea is to create a diverse ecosystem, which creates resilience, and to give back more to the ecosystem than you take out.� (Wednesday February 15th, 2023 — Washington Post - Washington DC USA)

Scientists tangle over �wood wide web� connecting forests and fungi The discovery of these mycorrhizal connections yielded a booming new body of research on what the academic journal Nature once called �the Wood Wide Web.� Studies from British Columbia, Switzerland and elsewhere have suggested that trees use mycorrhizal networks to exchange messages and share resources with struggling seedlings. (Tuesday February 14th, 2023 — Washington Post - Washington DC USA)

Natural Wine May Be Better for You Than Regular Wine�But Only Slightly The report states that biodynamic wines are very similar to organic in that they both require sustainable farming practices, but biodynamic is allowed to have a higher level of sulfites than an organic wine. Grapes used in biodynamic wines are also not allowed to contain any roundup, a common herbicide. (Saturday February 11th, 2023 — Eat This, Not That )

Biodynamic agripreneurs are set to trigger an organic farming trend in Nepal Sudarshan Chaudhary notes that in Nepal, soil degradation is caused by practices such as intensive cropping, heavy use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and mechanized farming. Sudarshan Chaudhary of Spiral Farm House in Saptari district proudly displays his harvest of cauliflowers. Sudarshan Chaudhary of Spiral Farm House in Saptari district proudly displays his harvest of cauliflower. Image via Nepali Times. Used with permission. The compost at Spiral Farm House has been doing wonders for the farm. ... The need of the moment is to broaden the adoption of biodynamic farming in Nepal and make its products more accessible. And Nepal�s pioneering �agripreneurs� like Chaudhary, Shrestha and Gurung are at the frontlines of this transformation. (Friday February 10th, 2023 — Global Voices, Stichting Global Voices, Amsterdam, The Netherlands )

Archaeologists Uncover 18,000 Ancient Egyptian �Notepads� Known as �ostraca,� the inscribed pottery shards document everyday life in the city of Athribis (Thursday February 9th, 2023 — Smithsonian Magazine - Washington DC USA)

Camphill School aims to be part of solution in �growing crisis� of residential care for people with learning disabilities Young people and families from Aberdeen have highlighted the growing crisis in residential care by calling on the Scottish Government and Cosla to deliver on one of their key pledges. Both hope that by next year, no one with a learning disability in Scotland will be kept needlessly in hospital or forced to live away from their communities and Camphill School (CSA) in Aberdeen hope to be part of the solution. (Thursday February 9th, 2023 — Press and Journal - UK)

Alternatives to Montessori: Comparing Waldorf vs. Reggio Emilia Waldorf schools do not teach students Anthroposophy, but Waldorf teachers study it in order to understand the teaching philosophy of Waldorf better. Waldorf education is spiritual. However, it just doesn�t teach a specific religion and belief system. Families from various religious and non-religious backgrounds send their children to Waldorf schools. (Tuesday February 7th, 2023 — Parentology )

France mandates parking lot solar arrays Soon every parking lot in France that greater than about 16000 square feet will be required to install solar panel canopies over at least half of the parking area. (Tuesday February 7th, 2023 — Daily Kos)

Biodynamic agripreneurs �I started this farm ten years ago for sustainable farming and conservation of soil and microorganisms,� explains Sudarshan Chaudhary of Spiral Farm House (pictured, right). �We make eight different types of biodynamic composts which not only help revive the soil but also give us wholesome food that helps maintain good health.� (Saturday February 4th, 2023 — Nepali Times - Nepal)

Animalia Land-dwelling rats are upending life for coral reef fish A rat invasion on isolated islands in the Indian Ocean has led to a remarkable ecological cascade that is upending life not just for the tiny fish, but for species across the coral reefs where it lives. (Thursday February 2nd, 2023 — Washington Post - Washington DC USA)

The far-reaching influence of Alaska's sea otters ...an unexpected ecological benefit of the otter's return started to emerge: their impact on kelp. (Wednesday February 1st, 2023 — BBC online)