Fifty Years of Biodynamic Farming: Essays From the Field by Henning Sehmsdorf
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The authors take on gluten intolerance, ecological livestock raising and the case for responsible animal care, bee colony collapse and concepts such as Goethe's theories around color and plant morphology. Favorite essays include Sehmsdorf 's life and farm partner Elizabeth Simpson's "The Viable Family Farm," and Sehmsdorf 's own "Home Food Security" and "Farming for Health," all stunning in their scope. Or, the conceptually brilliant "Emergy (Embodied Energy) Analysis of S&S Homestead Farm" by Andrew Haden (with Sehmsdorf). In his concluding essay, "The Spirituality of the Soil: The Idea of Teleology from Aristotle to Rudolf Steiner," Sehmsdorf 's unifying apprehension of cosmos and life as indwelling, transformative, and spiritual is manifest. It's what has powered his fifty-year farm plan, and what keeps Sehmsdorf researching, discovering, and creating today.
A magnum opus, Fifty Years of Biodynamic Farming: Essays From the Field is Henning Sehmsdorf 's tribute and testament to biodynamic living and farming. In writing and editing this collection of thirty-two essays, Sehmsdorf has created an enduring work that will be an invaluable tool for students and practitioners of holistic and self-sufficient food growing. Dozens of topics are organized into seven chapters, and their consideration is comprehensive. From personal histories with biodynamics to nutritionally-whole foods, herbal medicine, solar-powered micro-irrigation to the spirituality of the farm, Sehmsdorf and his colleagues reveal and discuss farming as a practice both sacred and personal. -Gigi Berardi, Author FoodWISE,
This book is brimming with the wisdom of a farming couple who spent more than half a
century stewarding a very special piece of land. Sehmsdorf ’s phenomenological approach to agriculture is documented thoroughly and thoughtfully, as are the couple’s multitude of experiences with biodynamic farming in the San Juan Islands of northwestern Washington State. I would recommend this book for anyone interested in the Biodynamic method of agriculture, practical applications of Rudolf Steiner’s work and philosophy, Associative Economics, or simply living a life closer to the land. This book exemplifies all these ideas and more, and was a pleasure to read. -Michael Long, Shelly and Mike’s Garden, LLC,
341 pages.
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