Living Farms: Biodynamic perspectives worldwide

Section for Agriculture
Since 06/2022 26 episodes
The Section for Agriculture at the Goetheanum in Switzerland invites the worldwide biodynamic movement to join the discussion.

This is the opportunity to put forward ideas, strategies, principles and approaches in current biodynamic practice, research, training and processing. The debate focuses in particular on how to work with the current challenges of our times.

Have you always wanted to find out what actually underlies biodynamic agriculture, how the research on this is carried out, how it has developed and who is currently leading the movement?

Or are you interested in how biodynamic ideas such as the agricultural organism, land-based animal husbandry and the training of perception are currently put into practice in different parts of the world?

Then you have come to the right place. The podcast is intended for all those who are curious to learn more about biodynamic agriculture and its approaches to solving our present-day problems.

#25 Cosmic Rhythms in Agriculture

With Iris Stocker and Eduardo Rincón

2025-10-01

In this episode, co-section leader Eduardo Rincón invites Iris Stocker to share her unique insights into the influence of celestial rhythms on agricultural practices, enriched by her deep understanding of alchemical principles. 

Iris Stocker, born in Göttingen, Germany, brings a lifetime of experience at the intersection of agriculture, education, and astronomy. After ten years working with the Association for Plant Breeding, she expanded her knowledge at Emerson College in Great Britain, where she studied agriculture and mastered the method of copper chloride crystallization. Later, Iris taught Biology and English in Witten, while nurturing her passion for biodynamic gardening and astronomical observations. 

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#24 Anthroposophic Medicine and Biodynamics in Dialogue

With Demi Franco and Eduardo Rincón

2025-09-02

Demi Franco is a doctor with a deep commitment to understanding health, illness, and the human being as a whole. She completed the International Training in ...

#23 Connecting Agriculture and Education

With Philipp Reubke and Eduardo Rincón

2025-08-08 23 min

The Living Farms Podcast is back! Host Eduardo Rincón welcomes inspiring guests from the worldwide biodynamic movement, opening up fresh perspectives – for ...

#22 Breathing with the Climate Crisis

2023-06-01

In this episode, we read parts of the newly published book “Breathing with the Climate Crisis” from Lin Bautze, Ueli Hurter and Johannes Kronenberg. The book...