Painting by Sara Parrilli
Biodynamic Agriculture
and Nutrition
By Anthony Mecca
with Contributions from Sarah Mecca
Twelve detailed and extensive lessons exploring the wisdom and practice of Rudolf Steiner’s indications for biodynamic agriculture and nutrition. Each lesson offers practical, experiential, and artistic exercises, alongside inner development exercises and individualized tutoring.
The Course Includes
- 12 Written Lessons
- Access to Tutoring
- Participant gatherings
- Certificate of Completion
- An online account for ease of access to all course components
Plus Upcoming or Past Workshops
- Earthly and Cosmic Nutrition for the Farm and Human Being (Coming Up May 2026)
- Experiencing Plant Development (1.5hr workshop recording)
- Cultivating Imagination through Working with Plants (3 x 1.25hr workshop recordings)
- Biodynamic Agriculture as a Healing Path for the Earth and the Human Being (1hr workshop recording)
- Four-fold Nature of Love
Cultivate capacities to perceive, experience, and work morally with the dynamic activity of life in soil, plants, animals, the human being, and the cosmic atmosphere in which we are embedded.
Developing Imaginative Consciousness
Developing a capacity for imagination as brought through Goethe and Steiner is a centering point for the course towards fostering a more harmonious relationship with our farms, gardens, or any endeavor to awaken and strengthen a connection with the Earth.
We will delve into holistic ways of perceiving and finding meaning in our farms, in our gardens, or simply in a moment’s communion with the natural world, in order to deepen and clarify inner experiences through the senses and imagination, and to contribute ethically and morally to the building of our world together.
The depths of biodynamics guides us to consciously raise matter into the realm of the spirit, and to support divine spiritual activity to more fully penetrate matter towards healing the Earth and humanity.
Twelve Lessons
Throughout the course of study the participant is invited to engage with new perspectives on human development, biodynamic agriculture, nutrition, the arts and sciences, evolution, the natural world, and much more.
An understanding of the human being and its relationship to the world through the lens of Anthroposophy such as offered by EduCareDo’s Foundations in Anthroposophy is extremely useful, though not a pre-requisite for this course.
Introduction to an Anthroposophical Approach to Agriculture and Nutrition
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A new Approach
Growth and Development
Reading the Environment: Soil
Reading The Environment: Landscapes and Climate
Participating in the Life of the Earth
Substances, Forces, and Realms of Consciousness in the Kingdoms of Nature
The ‘5 Siblings’ and their Role in Carbohydrates, Proteins, and Oils
Elements, Ethers, Physical Forces, and Sub-Physical, or Forces of Sub-Nature: The Life Behind the Material
Understanding and Working with Astral Forces
Working with Healing
Creating Healing Communities
Course Duration and
Ways to Study
The course is designed for self-paced and self-directed distance learning. Enroll at anytime and an account will be set up on the website, providing immediate access to the lessons that are formatted for printing. The recordings of workshops are also accessible from your account. The course and the associated activities remain available for 2 years, or longer if you choose to stay engaged with ongoing course offerings.
Lessons are written in a sequential order that gradually unfold, and are available to work with at your chosen pace for meeting your capacity to absorb and integrate the content.
Along the way you have the aid of communication with Anthony Mecca, the course author, when you submit a diary sheet that accompanies each lesson.
Every couple of months Anthony invites course participants to come together online to focus on an exercise or part of a lesson to bring the content alive through presentation, exercises, conversation, questions, and sharing from experience. This sharing can be strengthening and supportive to the practical work.
Read more about tutoring, gatherings and certificates of completion.→
Anthony Mecca
Anthony Mecca has been farming for almost 20 years, being introduced to biodynamics early on and working with many experienced farmers and mentors. He has worked in market gardening, small grains, and perennial crops including berries and tree fruit. For 8 years, he managed his own diversified CSA farm, also caring for a variety of animals, including the use of draft horses as the main source of power, caring individually for a 15 cow herd.
The farm and garden as a center of community life has been pivotal in his work. Bringing people into relationship with the wonder, beauty, and nourishment a biodynamic farm can provide, and seeing them grow and develop through this relationship individually and in community over the years has inspired his work.
Sarah Mecca
Since 2015, Sarah has worked as an anthroposophic homeopath, seeing adults, children from birth through adolescence and family groups. She offers health consultations in-person and remotely, anthroposophic and homeopathic remedies, and various therapeutic external treatments. Sarah trained as a classical homeopath and completed additional training and extensive mentorship and supervision in prescribing anthroposophic medicine. She is also a trained Waldorf teacher and curative educator. At Sun Heart Farm, Sarah offers early childhood programming, health retreats, and other therapeutic offerings.
Biodynamic Agriculture and Nutrition
By Anthony Mecca
with Contributions from Sarah Mecca
Biodynamic Agriculture & Nutrition Offerings
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Earthly and Cosmic Nutrition for the Farm and Human Being
By EduCareDo Administration
Biodynamics, Event
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Biodynamic Agriculture as a Healing Path for the Earth and the Human Being
By EduCareDo Administration
Biodynamics
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1
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