sun heart school for spiritual agriculture
Developing Relationships between Nature, Human Beings and the Spirit
Foundations of Biodynamic Agriculture
an in-depth online training with optional but encouraged in-person seminars
Offering a comphrensive overview of agriculture from a biodynamic perspective
Open to aspiring as well as established farmers, gardeners, homesteaders, teachers, and other land stewards
Cohort begins August 2026!
Foundations of Biodynamic Agriculture at Sun Heart School for Spiritual Agriculture is a cohort-based program exploring the sacred relationship of agriculture to both the human being and the spirit.
This experiential, interactive, cohort based program supports and enhances your agricultural learning journey via a variety of elements under two main areas of work.
Hands-on Training:
August and April In-person seminars, highly encouraged by not mandatory
Work with a Foundations of Biodynamic Agriculture Skills Development Guide
Daily journaling
The design and implementation of a simple independent project
Visits to 6 farms or gardens with reflective write-ups
Attending a biodynamics workshop or event
Classroom Component:
The EduCareDo Foundation Year in Anthroposophy Curriculum
Biodynamic Textbook – Biodynamic Agriculture: An Introduction by Herbert Koepf, Bo Pettersson, and Wolfgang Schaumann
Monthly Learning and Community Building Videoconference Sessions
Meetups with your Cohort small group
The program is split into two sessions:
Foundations of Biodynamic Agriculture Session 1 - Biodynamic Plant and Soil Health starts in August 2026 and finishes in April 2027.
Foundations of Biodynamic Agriculture Session 2 - Biodynamic Animal Health, Social Life, Astronomy, and Nutrition starts in May 2027 and runs through December 2027.
For more information about our cohort starting in August 2026, including a program and curriculum outline, dates, and tuition details, please contact Anthony Mecca.
In Partnership With
Part of our curriculum centers on lessons from the Foundations in Anthropsophy courses from EduCareDo
Program director and lead Facilitator
Anthony has been farming for 20 years. Anthony is a mentor and adult educator. He ran the farmer training programs for the Biodynamic Association for the past 10 years. He is a teacher and author on the themes of biodynamic agriculture, developing new faculties of perception, the nature of substance, and an understanding of nutrition based on Rudolf Steiner's Agriculture Course to support soil, plant, animal, and human health. Anthony also consults and offers mentorship in biodynamic agriculture for all ages, and is the author of the EduCareDo year-long distance learning subject course Biodynamic Agriculture and Nutrition. He also holds workshops and conferences on the themes of biodynamic agriculture and nutrition at Sun Heart Farm where he live and works with his partner and child.
Previously, Anthony founded Great Song Farm in 2010, the community-supported-agriculture farm he ran for 8 seasons, working with biodynamic practices and principles to grow a diversity of vegetables and care for a small cow herd and two draft horses who did all the heavy work He also has rich practical experience with nearly any type of farm animal, dairying including processing, medicinal herbs and pharmacy, small grains, and perennial crops including berries and tree fruit.
Why Biodynamics?
Biodynamics is a holistic, coevolutionary, earth-friendly practice and way of being that creates abundant health for soil, plants, animals, people, and planet. Each unique and self-sustaining farm organism contributes generously to the ecological, economic, social, and spiritual vitality of its surrounding community and landscape, and the whole living earth. Through biodynamics, we can access new capacities in human creativity to sense and respond to the needs of the planet, and unfold new solutions in a living and dynamic way. Biodynamics is both a way to bring health and healing to agriculture and a potent movement for new thinking and practices in all aspects of life connected to food and agriculture.
The principles and practices of biodynamics can be applied anywhere, with thoughtful adaptation to scale, landscape, climate, and culture.
Our Educational Principles
— Every situation and every being has something to offer and something to teach. We strive to have open and honest conversations, and challenge our views and opinions.
— We are all students, and work to help each other learn and grow.
— Each person is recognized as a whole human being. Our thinking, feeling, and willing are engaged fully through our heads, hearts, and hands.
— Dialogue and direct experience are primary learning tools.
— A diversity of questions, perspectives, and abilities are welcomed. Our complex individual lives are honored and respected. We work to harness the potential of diversity and integrate it into a cohesive whole.
— The human being has a rich inner life as well as an outer life, and the health of this inner life is intimately connected to the progression and health of our communities, culture, and societal systems.
— Active engagement, self-awareness, and the respect of the freedom of each individual are core responsibilities of all participants.