FEAST ends the summer with biodynamic farming

In the past month FEAST students visited Orcas farms and traveled to neighboring islands. Students went to Lopez Island by bike for an overnight campout at the S&S Homestead. They made camp meals on their rocket stove, met up with Biodynamic Farmer, Henning Sehmsdorf who taught them about, the philosophy of biodynamic farming made popular by Rudolf Steiner. They learned that biodynamic farming harnesses and transmits more energy into the food through various “bio-dynamic preps.” Students prepared a biodynamic prep by stirring water and fermented manure (stored in a cow horn and buried for a winter) into a vortex.

September 2, 2008 2:05 am

In the past month FEAST students visited Orcas farms and traveled to neighboring islands. Students went to Lopez Island by bike for an overnight campout at the S&S Homestead. They made camp meals on their rocket stove, met up with Biodynamic Farmer, Henning Sehmsdorf who taught them about, the philosophy of biodynamic farming made popular by Rudolf Steiner. They learned that biodynamic farming harnesses and transmits more energy into the food through various “bio-dynamic preps.” Students prepared a biodynamic prep by stirring water and fermented manure (stored in a cow horn and buried for a winter) into a vortex.

According to Whitney Hartzell, FEAST coordinator, Science often struggles to explain how the preps work, but the taste of the food and the health of the S&S Homestead farm is undeniable.”