Churchill Fellowships applications 2025

Agriculture, horticulture and food production sectors This pack covers messaging and promotional material for the 2025 Churchill Fellowship application round. It is intended to help organisations let potential Churchill Fellows […]
Update on meat eating

A recently released study published in the journal Neurology has pointed out the dangers of processed meats and their link to a higher dementia risk due to the inclusion of […]
The stinging nettle

Olaf Lampson, Bio-Dynamics, Summer 1980 Known as an obnoxious weed, the stinging nettle; it is hard to kill; it does not even have a flower worth looking at; and it […]
Making the biodynamic tree spray and tree paste

Peter Escher, Biodynamics Journal, No. 157, Winter 1986, reprinted with kind permission. The biodynamic tree spray or paste is used extensively for trees, shrubs and berries on trunk and twig. […]
Teasing out the reality of biodynamics

John Hodgkinson Nature is an altruistic giver. We do not receive an invoice for payment from the soil; nor from a wheat crop or a cow or a tomato plant. […]
Bee news from Bellingen

John Hodgkinson This spring is proving to be one of the best bee seasons in the Bellinger Valley for many years. Not since 1984 when a truckload of my beehives […]
Beauty and Biodynamics

John Hodgkinson One concept not frequently addressed in agriculture is ‘beauty’. That is, apart from the scenery and views from the farmhouse windows or from various vantage points around the […]
Tree pruning workshop at Bellingen’s Northbank Community Garden

John Hodgkinson About 25 local folk and garden committee members turned up to the half-day pruning workshop on Fathers Day 2024. The community garden is a verdant springtime treat at […]
This is an exceptional pinot noir

Max Allen, Australian Financial Review, 20.6.24 (reprinted with kind permission) It’s Sunday morning and there are plenty of cars parked outside the striking redbrick church in Tarrington, a small town […]
Supercharge your garden with Valerian flower extract

John Hodgkinson Valerian flower extract, in biodynamics known as Preparation 507, wakes things up in garden, horticulture and farm settings. Spraying the stirred preparation over a garden, market garden, nursery, […]