The Josephine Porter Institute produces biodynamic preparations and offers educational materials to help regenerate soil and whole‑farm ecosystems.
What is Biodynamics?
We all want good food full of life – and food that doesn’t poison the earth. Is there a way to grow food and heal our planet?
Biodynamics offers backyard gardeners and large-scale farmers a way to regenerate tired soils without using chemicals; it is a completely natural, organic, sustainable, and non-toxic way of growing food.
The word “biodynamic” means “life forces” because biodynamic growers are all about nurturing living soil and making sure all plants are provided with ideal organic nutrition to be healthy. Why do we do this? Because we want healthier soil and healthier humans.
Anything living has rhythms: waking, sleeping, breathing in, breathing out. The soil is alive and biodynamic growers pay attention to these patterns to help increase the liveliness of our farms and gardens.
As a 501(c)3 nonprofit, the Josephine Porter Institute is dedicated to supplying the world with educational materials so people can make their own healthy soil remedies.
For anyone who cannot make their own, we also offer low-cost biodynamic preparations to purchase so you can take steps with us to heal our shared environment.
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Biodynamics in TX
JPI Board President Teresa O'Shaughnessy wil be present for an interactive panel discussing biodynamics and the future of agriculture in Texas.
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Superior Compost
Our compost preparations are full of beneficial microbes. As yeast works through a lot of dough, you only need a little bit of these preparations to bring new life to your soil.
The biodynamic preparations are a spectrum of exceptional wild plants, each carefully aged to provide diverse microbiology to your compost piles.
Each special composted remedy in our complete set brings its own enzymatic activity to the compost pile, both accelerating transformation and also significantly reducing losses to off-gassing. If you are looking to make better humus for your crops, look no further. These herbal remedies work to improve virtually any composting method.

Pfeiffer™ Exclusive Products
We are the sole producer and distributor of the legendary Pfeiffer™ products. Dr. Ehrenfried (pronounced AIR-ren-FREED) Pfeiffer was an immediate student of Rudolf Steiner and helped introduce biodynamics to the United States by making superior compost on an industrial scale.

Pfeiffer™ Field & Garden Spray
This remedy was developed by Dr. Ehrenfried Pfeiffer to get all the biodynamic preparations out across as much land as possible in a single pass. If you are not able to compost enough for your land or would like to bring the effect of the biodynamic remedies to your entire field, this is for you. Within mere weeks after spraying, available NPK levels doubled or even quadrupled in trials.

Generate Beautiful Resilience
Biodynamics is beyond organic, adopting an even more holistic perspective of the garden, orchard, vineyard, and farm, viewing them as interconnected living systems. Biodynamics is a non-toxic and non-GMO way of tending soil life and growing more nutritious food.
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