Workshop at the Goetheanum
1 The biodynamic plant breeding impulse: the example of grass and grain development
With the involvement of the participants, we want to raise awareness of the personalities who have worked on crop development in grasses and grains since 1924 and the approaches they have pursued. What was the individual approach and what were the objectives? How were the impulses followed up and how have they changed? How are the expected needs of humans, but also the expectations for the development of plants, to be considered? To which new approaches and methods do the encounters with the essential and the underlying image of being human lead?
Date
2 February,10:45-12:15
3 February, 10:45-12:15
4 February, 10:45-12:15
Place
Rudolf Steiner Halde Atelier
Language
English | German
Uwe Mos
Born 1963, civilian service in the garden of the Johanneshaus Öschelbronn, agricultural apprenticeship at the biodynamic Waldrebenhof Wahlwies. Agricultural studies and work in biodynamic plant breeding: Keyserlingk Institute at Lake Constance, Grub Farm in Chiemgau. Attended the teacher training seminar in Stuttgart. Since 1992 teacher at the Freie Waldorfschule Wetterau. 2006 book publication: "Wild Grass Improvement, Rudolf Steiner's Impulse for Plant Breeding". Further research and publications on the creation of new cereal species.
Karl-Josef Müller
Karl-Josef Müller has been working for thirty years in north-eastern Lower Saxony on extensive sites to develop criteria for breeding grains in organic farming and converting them into varieties from a biodynamic perspective. He is the developer of the light grain rye and the effect of humans on the cultivated plant fascinates him again and again.