Stella Natura 2010 Authors and Artists
About the Authors
, founder of Goodfarmers Consulting Services, originally trained at Emerson College, England and in Fuhlenhagen, Germany. He has over 35 years of experience as an organic/biodynamic farmer and gardener. Jim has managed commercial organic farms, market gardens and small landholdings and has developed educational and service programs for three colleges. He has recently been consulting on several projects in Colorado and California. Presently he is a consultant to Frog Belly Farm in Colorado, advising and working full-time to develop local biodynamic/organic food production and educational programs.
(michael@sensri.org), who is trained both as engineer and educator, has spent a number of years working in industry, receiving several patents along the way. His main interest has been to solve technical problems artistically, based on processes found in the natural world. He currently teaches physical science and mathematics at the Waldorf School of Saratoga Springs in Saratoga Springs, New York, and lectures internationally on science education and environmental issues. He co-authored the book, Sensible Physics Teaching, with Stephen Edelglass. D'Aleo is also a principal researcher at SENSRI, a 501-c-3 organization in Saratoga Springs, New York, devoted to phenomena-centered research.
was for many years on the faculty of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City. He then taught high school mathematics and physics at the Green Meadow Waldorf School in Spring Valley, New York, until his death. In addition to Sensible Physics Teaching, he co-authored The Marriage of Sense and Thought: Imaginative Participation in Science. He was also a founder of SENSRI, a 501-c-3 in Saratoga Springs, New York, devoted to phenomena-centered research.
was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil and studied Geography at the University of Sao Paulo. While at the University, along with Professors Andreas Attila, Arley Adriolo and Clara Passhier, he organized a series of courses on Goethean Science as an elective at the Geography and Psychology Dept. They were able to offer a week on "The Evolution of Human Consciousness," "The Metamorphoses of Plants," "Goethe's Theory of Color," "Art and Science from the 15th to 20th Centuries." For the past two years he worked with small farmers in the Atlantic Rainforest, helping them convert their land to biodynamics and also helping them find markets for their produce. Currently he is the gardener of Heartbeet Lifesharing community in Hardwick, Vermont.
has been a biodynamic gardener and beekeeper for 33 years. A former college and then Waldorf School teacher, he returned to the USA in 1996 to co-found the Pfeiffer Center in Spring Valley, NY. Since then he has given many workshops on organic/holistic beekeeping methods. In his book Toward Saving the Honeybee (2002) he calls for a radical change in beekeeping methods. In 2006 he co-founded Spikenard Farm, Inc. with his wife, and in 2007 they moved to a farm in western central Illinois donated for this purpose. There they are transitioning a conventionally farmed 610 acres to biodynamic practices and establishing a honeybee sanctuary in its heart.
is an enthusiastic student of Living Nature. She is a medical herbalist, healer, teacher and author of various books and brochures on the deep ecology relationship between humans and their natural environment. She also offers a state of the art three-year correspondence course in herbology. She is a committed biodynamic grower, founder of l'Armoire aux Herbes, a traditional herb farm and transformation facility, in pursuit of the utmost quality for the past twenty-five years. The magnificent gardens, where a few thousand species of plants thrive harmoniously in spite of a very harsh climate, host countless garden visits, workshops and gatherings of people searching for a place of peace and beauty where the divine nature of the plant kingdom is reverently taken into consideration. Danièle is presently the president of the Quebec Biodynamic Association, the editor of the Association's extensive newsletter and she is very active in the Demeter certification process in her province.
is the Director and principal instructor of a Practical Training in Biodynamics at the Pfeiffer Center in Spring Valley, New York. He grew up in the Connecticut River Valley and graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with a degree in psychology. In 1975 he began working at the Fellowship Community in Spring Valley, where he had the privilege and good fortune to learn biodynamic methods from former colleagues of Ehrenfried Pfeiffer. He helped start the Third Grade Farming Block at Green Meadow Waldorf School and the Public School Outreach Program at the Duryea Farm, where he was the resident farmer from 1997–2005.
has always lived on a farm and farmed for a living. He runs the 200-member Long Hungry Creek CSA and hosts popular biodynamic get-togethers on the farm in Tennessee. Since 1993, he has written a weekly newspaper column, where this article first appeared. His column and book are called Barefoot Farmer.
lives and works at Foxhollow Farm, a 1400 acre grass-fed beef farm, vegetable CSA and developing agrarian community in Crestwood, Kentucky. Laura runs the biodynamic program at Foxhollow. She has a small business, Bio-Ag Resources, that strives to help farmers and gardeners integrate biodynamics by supplying local biodynamic preparations and by inspiring ideas, concepts and acceptance between all styles of farming. Laura lived and worked at The Josephine Porter Institute for Applied Biodynamics for four years and completed the part-time, year-long biodynamic training with Günther Hauk at the Pfeiffer Center. She received her B.S in Natural Sciences from Colorado State University in 1997.
gardened biodynamically in New York, Switzerland, England, California and Pennsylvania. Since 1973 she has been a co-worker in Camphill Village Kimberton Hills, and since 1978 she has been editing this Calendar. She teaches anthroposophy and is an active member of the Anthroposophical Society. As a member of its Agriculture Section she has taken a leading role, in collaboration with the Biodynamic Association, in establishing a North American Biodynamic Apprenticeship Program.
About the Artists
our cover artist, resides in Chester County, PA, where he paints en plein air. The task of landscape painting is to bring about a harmonious relationship between earth and sky, light and matter, outer perception and inner experience.
has been illustrating ever since she can remember. She has illustrated a children's book, Dance of the Elves, and a cookbook called The Community Cooks. Elizabeth currently teaches seventh grade at the Pine Hill Waldorf School in Wilton, New Hampshire. For further information and permission for reprinting the illustrations, contact Elizabeth at (603)654-3724.
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9" x 12" wall calendar
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40 pages, 4-color cover
$14.95 retail; ISBN
978-0-9795530-4-0