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By Steve Diver — NCAT Agriculture Specialist
February 1999
Introduction
Biodynamic agriculture is an advanced organic
farming system that is gaining increased attention
for its emphasis on food quality and soil health.
Biodynamic agriculture developed out of eight
lectures on agriculture given in 1924 by Rudolf
Steiner (1861−1925), an Austrian scientist and
philosopher, to a group of farmers near Breslau
(which was then in the eastern part of Germany
and is now Wroclaw in Poland).
These lectures,
as well as four supplemental lessons, are
published in a book titled Spiritual Foundations for
the Renewal of Agriculture, originally published in
English as An Agricultural Course (1).
The Agriculture Course lectures were t
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