Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

  • 2

    Soil and Mineral

    • Physical Aspect of the Farm Organism

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    • Soil and Mineral

    • Workbook: Overview Map

    • Agriculture Course lecture 2 by Rudolf Steiner

    • Discussion of Agriculture Course Lecture 2

    • Workbook: Soil

    • Instructions for Soil Texture Analysis

    • Instructions for Spade diagnosis

    • Pfeiffer on Living Soil - optional reading

    • Optional Further Analytical Soil Testing
  • 3

    Plant

    • Plants in the Farm Organism

    • Plant Kingdom

    • Workbook: Plants

    • Weeds As Indicators

    • Weeds as Messenger

    • Weeds and what they tell- Ferron and Cayonette 1975 table

    • Agriculture course lecture 7 by Rudolf Steiner
  • 4

    Animal

    • Animals in the Farm Organism

    • Animal Kingdom

    • Trinity by Merijn van den Hout

    • Workbook: Animal Observation

    • Animal seminar

    • Workbook: Animals

    • A word on Bees and Ants

    • Earth and Man Lecture 2 by Karl Koning

    • The Role of the Horse by Marie Franco

    • DEFRA Livestock Units
  • 5

    Farm Individuality

    • Farm Individuality

    • Farm Individuality

    • Workbook: Farm Individuality

    • Pfeiffer on the task of the farmer

    • Goethean Observation Phenomenology

    • Nature and Landscape
  • 6

    Putting in all Together

    • Putting it all Together

    • A look at one farm organism: Tablehurst Farm

    • Workbook: Putting it all together

    • Enzo Nastati 3rd Aspect of the Agricultural Organism

    • Land use case studies

    • Sustainable Fertility

    • Herbert Koepf on Farm Habitat
  • 7

    Social

    • The Social Side of the Farm Individuality

    • Community

    • Workbook: Social

    • Farm Case Study: Plawhatch Farm

    • Biodynamic Landscape management Sattler and Wistinghausen

    • Elsen T Developing landscape and enhancing wildlife a biodynamic apporach

    • Farms of Tomorrow Revisited Essay 1 by Trauger Groh
  • 8

    Additional Reading and Resources

    • Extract from Man as Symphony of the Creative Word Lec 1

    • Farm Organism- Paull John

    • Healthy human as a metaphor for a healthy farm

    • Herbert Koepf on Farm Habitat

    • Joachim Raupp The well-proportioned farm organism

    • Man as a Compendium of the Animal Kingdom_ by Hermann Poppelbaum

    • Stay within the Ecological Carrying Capacity- Polyface farm

    • Trauger Groh Farms of Tomorrow Revisited Essay 1

    • Trauger Groh Farms of Tomorrow Revisited Essay 5
  • 9

    Q&A Sessions

    • Periodic Q&A Webinars

    • May 2021 Q&A Session Recording