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Vegetables (Generic image: Sofia Lismont)

100 years of biodynamic farming: Expanding all the senses >>> In a collaboration between ‘Steinbeisser’ and the Section for Agriculture at the Goetheanum, chefs Elif Oskan and Selassie Atadika cook with biodynamic ingredients

For the centenary of biodynamic farming Elif Oskan and Selassie Atadika offer a culinary evening at the Goetheanum with biodynamic ingredients from its own garden. The organizer, experimental gastronomy initiative ‘Steinbeisser’, likes to combine Haute Cuisine with artistically designed objects such as cutlery.

Water: Gorge Chälengraben, Hofstetten, Switzerland

“Learning to understand water means protecting life” >>> World Food Day 2023: ‘Water is life. Water is food’

The earth’s water balance is out of joint. Extreme weather conditions lead to droughts in some instances and to flooding in others. Water itself is not to blame for this situation, rather it is an expression of outer conditions for which human beings are responsible. Jasmin Peschke, head of nutrition at the Goetheanum, points this out on the occasion of World Food Day 2023.

Conference for teachers of biodynamic farming in Zimbabwe (Kufunda Village), 2022 (Photo: Maaianne Knuth)

Emancipation through agriculture > The Goetheanum’s Section for Agriculture reflects on a hundred years of biodynamics

The biodynamic brand ‘Demeter’ is known around the world, the foundations of biodynamic agriculture less so. In the year leading up to the centenary, the Section for Agriculture at the Goetheanum explores this approach as the continuation of a human cultural impulse and invites the eco-activist Vandana Shiva to speak at the Goetheanum about the relationship between human beings and the earth.

Helmy Abouleish, Sekem, partner of the World Goetheanum Association (Photo: Economy of Love)

Multidimensional sustainability standard ‘Economy of Love’: Economy in tune with humanity and nature

There is no such thing yet as an uninterrupted, transparent and sustainable supply chain. By using ‘impacTrace’ to investigate the impact products have on the economy, on culture, society and on the environment, ‘Economy of Love’ establishes their true‘ costs. Helmy Abouleish, one of the standard‘s initiators, is a partner within the World Goetheanum Association.

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