The following Units comprise the Ruskin Mill Biodynamic Training programme.
Although the programme integrates therapeutic education and human development into a biodynamic training, the units and associated content are heavily weighted towards Biodynamic Agriculture. Additionally, Steiner’s Agricultural Lectures are woven throughout the programme.
Module Name | Unit No | Unit Name |
1. Spirit of Place | 1 | Spirit of Place |
2 | Soils from a Biodynamic Perspective | |
3a | Plants from a Biodynamic Perspective | |
3b | Biodynamic Seeds | |
4 | Animals from a Biodynamic Perspective | |
2. Practical Farm and Garden Skills | 5 | Hand tools, equipment and machinery |
3. The Biodynamic Farm as an Organism | 6 | The farm organism |
7 | Weather- Water | |
8 | Biodiversity and farm ecology | |
9 | Environmental accountability | |
4. Therapeutic Education and Human Development | 10 | Practical Skills Therapeutic Education |
11 | Human Development | |
5. Food and Nutrition | 12 | Food and Nutrition |
13 | Holistic Support and Care | |
6. Balancing Cosmic and Earthly Energies | 14 | Rhythms and Formative forces |
15 | Biodynamic Preparations | |
16 | Biodynamic weed, pest and disease management | |
7. Transformative Leadership and Farm and Garden Management | 17a/b | Project: Horticultural Production in Biodynamic Practice OR Animal Husbandry in Biodynamic Practice |
18 | Farm economics, leadership and management |