Organization
The current co-leaders of the Section are Sherry Wildfeuer and Alex Tuchman.
Section Council members are:
Carin Fortin, Malcolm Gardner, Harald Hoven, Robert Karp, Delmar McComb, Alex Tuchman and Sherry Wildfeuer.
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Annual meeting (traditionally are held in mid-January in Spring Valley, NY), where people can take up relevant themes together and share what they have been working on during the past year. Active participants engage in research in the field of biodynamic agriculture, and groups are forming to take up specific themes.
We maintain a collaborative relationship with the leaders of the Anthroposophical Society in North America and the Agriculture Section at the Goetheanum in Switzerland.
Projects
This year, the Section is offering to help organize, and support with traveling speakers, local gatherings to celebrate the centenary of Rudolf Steiner's lectures on agriculture in Koberwitz in 1924.
These lectures are currently being re-translated and annotated by Malcolm Gardner, and the Agriculture Section is supporting the publication of the new edition.
Membership
The Agriculture Section is part of the Anthroposophical Society and the School for Spiritual Science. Whereas anyone can apply* to become a coworker in the Section because they feel their destiny to be aligned with the impulse of biodynamics and anthroposophy, each person must make an individual decision to become a member of the Anthroposophical Society** and the School for Spiritual Science.***
We must root out from the soul all fear and dread of what presses toward us from the future. ... We must acquire calmness in all our feelings and emotions about the future and face with absolute equanimity everything that may come. And we must only think that whatever may come, it is given to us through the wisdom-filled guidance of the world.
Rudolf Steiner (Nov. 27, 1910)
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How to participate
Besides this website, there is an online Newsletter for communication among Section colleagues and to the public.
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A healthy social life is found only
when the whole community
is reflected in the mirror of each human soul,
and when the virtue of each soul
can live in the community.
Rudolf Steiner (Nov. 5, 1920)