The 3rd grade teacher, Laura Berkley Boram organized these Michaelmas Festivities together with a local farmer and myself (Ellie Sherman).
We screened this inspiring movie, One Man, One Cow, One Planet, about a Biodynamo from New Zealand, Peter Proctor, who has been doing AMAZING work with farmers in India for the last two decades.
Then on Michaelmas, September 29th, local folks gathered along with the 3rd grade Gardeners and made the Biodynamic 500 preparation that will be buried this Fall and dug up in the Spring. We also as stirred the 500 prep that the current 5th grade class had made the year before.
After stirring the preparation for an hour we offered it to the land around the Waldorf School, as an offering of healing & appreciation to the land that supports the school, the children & the community.
-written by Ellie Sherman, Whidbey Institute Westgarden Coordinator, apprentice in the Community Garden Leadership Training Program
