"Ecological agriculture is the mainstream, modern environmental movement for the renewal of agriculture and nutrition - and includes several schools of thought and practice. Biodynamics was historically, the pioneering initiative of this modern environmental movement. It is, however, much more than just an impulse for renewing agriculture and nutrition ecologically, it is a true holistic and complimentary system of medicine for agriculture, for each unique farm, based on an understanding of nature that is both scientific and spiritual." Dr. Andrew C. Lorand
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“Andrew Lorand is unique in combining a deep understanding of the spiritual dimensions of biodynamics while having a rigorous, academic background in other western schools of agriculture, including permaculture and agroecology. While some of our biodynamic friends are content with the spiritual view of Steiner’s approach to agriculture, some of the best also yearn for a deeper more complex and more complete understanding of just how biodynamic agriculture fits into current paradigms of agricultural renewal and Andrew is exceptionally talented in this regard.”
Ted Lemon, Proprietor and Winegrower, Littorai Wines, Sebastopol, California
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“Andrew Lorand opened up the world of biodynamics for us and the way he speaks about it – often with humor, but at the same time with great seriousness about what is essential, with tremendous technical competence and most of all with contagious enthusiasm – makes every hour with him an unforgettable experience.”
John Nittnaus, Proprietor and Winemaker, Gols, Austria
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| Stirring Preps with a Lorand 7-Wood Barrel |
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| Making layered Compost by hand.. |
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„There are probably few people like Andrew Lorand, who can explain biodynamics with so much competence, so understandably and with so much livliness. He, who decides to go with him on this path, will find it incredible.“
Josef Umathum, "Demeter" certified biodynamic Winemaker, Frauenkirchen, Austria
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„This kind of biodynamic schooling – with all ist background and practial information is no doubt unique in it's depth, complexity and quality. It was and remains a revelation for me. Mr. Lorand has comprehensive knowledge of Rudolf Steiner and biodynamics - impressive and fascinating!"
Thomas Teibert, "Biodivin" biodynamic Winemaker, Calce, France
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| Compost with worms... |
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| andrew christopher lorand |
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| Hello and Welcome!
At this site, I want to inform you about professional ecological agriculture and particularly introduce you to biodynamic agriculture, offering you an independent introduction - including links to more websites.
Additionally, I hope to connect you with the folks who are working everyday to make a better world through healthy products and land care - and who are using ecological and spiritual ideas and principles to this end.
Furthermore, I can offer a peek into the way in which I educate and train farmers of all kinds, gardeners and winemakers to understand and make best use of agroecology, biodynamics and related schools of thought and practice.
The site is under construction - so please come back often as we will make every effort to update and complete the site in the near future...
Dr. Andrew Christopher Lorand
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| The MoonStart getting to know the moon. She has different faces and different phases and an interesting way of shedding her light (and forces) on the Earth....
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"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS." Mohandas Gandhi
"The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself." Henry Miller
"Come up, O lions, and shake off the delusion that you are sheep; you are souls immortal, spirits free, blest and eternal; ye are not matter, ye are not bodies; matter is your servant, not you the servant of matter." Vivekananda
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“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” Mark Twain
“Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul. And to say that the season for studying philosophy has not yet come, or that it is past and gone, is like saying that the season for happiness is not yet or that it is now no more.”
Epicurus
"Healing comes, when in the mirror of the human soul one sees the whole community and when in the community, the individual soul can truly thrive." Rudolf Steiner
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| UPCOMING: English Conference !! |
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| a beautiful biodynamic cluster.. |
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| ACL with Paul Achs in the Golser sun... |
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| Ecological succession... |
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| Green manuring every other row.. |
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| Bringing out compost... |
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| Rudolf Steiner |
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