Garden Week
Through lectures and working in the YIP garden, this course week offers both an intellectual and practical introduction into Biodynamic agriculture.
Together with the YIP participants this course will involve learning over time and through the seasons how to grow vegetables and herbs in a northern climate. Activities will include harvesting, compost making, bed care for the winter, processing, fermenting, seed saving etc. Time and space will be given to learn how to observe and understand the different plants and their needs and the needs of the garden.
With Autumn comes harvest time in the garden. The YIP participants will spend the mornings learning from Thomas Lüthi about the foundations of Biodynamic agriculture. The course will focus on the basics of Biodynamic agriculture and will broaden the perception of what ‘communities’ can be, by giving an insight into how ecosystems live and grow together. Thomas will introduce the participants into the Swedish landscape and seasons, specifically in the area of Järna.
Aleksandra Domańska
Aleksa comes originally from Poland, and is currently based in Sweden. She graduated from Russian Philology but then she spent 6 years in a corporate world doing mostly accounting, project management and also being a Feedback trainer. She has spent the last 4 years reconnecting with nature through Permaculture and Regenerative agriculture and Biodynamic farming. Growing up in Poland she …
Thomas Lüthi
Thomas Lüthi was born in 1947 in Zürich, Switzerland. He studied biodynamic farming and gardening at Warmonderhof in the Netherlands and worked as a gardener in the United Kingdom and Järna in Sweden. Thomas was the president of Demeter International, co-leader of the Section for Agriculture at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland and chairman of the International Biodynamic Council. In …