with Barbara M V Scott, MSc,
Wildlife Biology
"So long as one feeds on food from unhealthy soil, the spirit will lack the stamina to free itself from the prison of the body." --Rudolf Steiner
Q. Barbara, how did you begin to teach?
A. Questions began to come in, first from seed customers, about how to make compost, how to bring life forces into the soil and crops. On marketing trips--these were my windows into the wider culture, since I'd be on the farm for months at a time--I began to see kitchen waste going to landfills instead of the compost, to taste that tap water was undrinkable. I realized that more and more people wanted to live as I was brought up, growing their own food, maybe getting their own meat. Lots of people wanted to become stewards but nobody knew how to do it.
A. Questions began to come in, first from seed customers, about how to make compost, how to bring life forces into the soil and crops. On marketing trips--these were my windows into the wider culture, since I'd be on the farm for months at a time--I began to see kitchen waste going to landfills instead of the compost, to taste that tap water was undrinkable. I realized that more and more people wanted to live as I was brought up, growing their own food, maybe getting their own meat. Lots of people wanted to become stewards but nobody knew how to do it.
Q. Orchard work, food crops, care of animals, growing out heirloom seeds--what's the common factor here?
A. In all cases we are really working with life forces, the Nature Spirits who are the primary allies of the plants, animals, minerals and people on the land.
A. In all cases we are really working with life forces, the Nature Spirits who are the primary allies of the plants, animals, minerals and people on the land.
Two sons, William and Nathan were brought up with highly nutritional food and had Nature as their childhood ally--no need for doctor visits, nor for a long time public schooling.
Barbara saw and felt how the soil's health is intimately linked to human health. She began to have a direct perception of the original spiritual impulse behind Rudolf Steiner's Biodynamic initiative.
In 2005, with the boys grown up, it came to be time to sell the farm. For 15 months Barbara and husband Woody were Farm and Garden Directors for a Waldorf School startup in Bellevue, Idaho. They co-created a beautiful small garden there, set up for small-scale animal husbandry and built many compost piles.
First gather your questions. Whether you own a backyard, farm, ranch, or vineyard I will help you to nourish and encourage your innate abilities of direct perception to discover how you might bring in balance and harmony to the land's life body, and how to begin working with Right Relationship with All Beings there, seen and unseen. To do this I will need to be present for three days on the ground, and will need a quiet, clean place to be while I tune in to the forces present there. Then through discussions while walking together, we will plan how you can co-create a vibrant, life affirming agricultural individuality.
plus travel expenses, room and meals.
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"Biodynamics means we take on responsibility for the Earth, not by just working in such a way that we continue what is there....but we need to endow what is there with future forces so the Earth itself can participate in the future development of mankind." --Manfred Klett
It is with great anticipation that I have awaited the Aurora Flower Essences. I spent some very memorable time on Aurora Farm in 1995 and 1996. There is no doubt that it is a magical place. The terrain is quite different from its surroundings in southern BC and as I drove up their driveway I felt transported to another planet. A place of great peace and purity, and yet pulsing with a powerful healing energy. Under the stewardship of Barbara and her sons it had been transformed into a thriving Biodynamic farm, farmed strictly according to the principles of Steiner.
As a homeopath I believe strongly in the Spirit or Life-force inherent in the substances we use with healing intent. It thus becomes of vital importance to consider the way in which they have been grown and collected. The Aurora Flower Essences in my mind represent the very highest in quality and intent, brought to us with Love and Care.
I am excited at the prospect of bringing the magical healing powers of Aurora Farm into my practice in Cape Town, South Africa.
--Murray Rushmere, MD