Dettagli

Manfred Klett , the doyen of the biodynamic movement, presents with this book the synthesis of his lifelong activity. It is an appeal to future generations to grasp the potential of the art of agriculture and to perceive the creative-social mission of biodynamic agriculture.

“Humanity has a mission, we are called to build the Earth”.

Biodynamic agriculture takes on the task of realizing this mission, expanding agricultural culture with anthroposophical spiritual science. The starting point of this impulse is the "Farmers' Course", which Rudolf Steiner held in 1924.

Biodynamic agriculture aims to achieve an evolution of agricultural practice linked to the habitat by configuring the farm to form an organic whole, also adopting specific fertilization measures that favor the fertility of the soil and the nutritional quality of the products.

Another objective that we intend to achieve is the formation of agricultural communities that develop their own social order autonomously based on the living and working conditions of agriculture itself and which, radiating outwards, instill society-shaping impulses in their own context social.

Biography of Manfred Klett

Manfred Klett was born in 1933 in Tanganjika, now Tanzania, near Kilimanjaro. He spent his school years at the Schloss Salem school, and after the Second World War at the Waldorf school in Stuttgart, with a one-year exchange program for pupils in England. He ended his studies at the Stuttgart Technical University early due to an accident. During a year-long work stay in northeast Syria, he decided to become a farmer. After an apprenticeship he began studying agricultural sciences at the University of Stuttgart-Hohenheim with a doctorate in pedology. He dedicated another four years to research work at the Institute for Biodynamic Agriculture on the topic of "Fertilization and food quality". In 1968 he founded the Dottenfelderhof Farm Community with five other families, and shortly afterwards the Dottenfelderhof agricultural school. After twenty years of pioneering biodynamic work with his wife and five children, he headed the Agriculture Department of the Natural Sciences Section of the Goetheanum in Dornach/Switzerland for 14 years. After working for another eight years in Dornach as a freelance collaborator of the Agriculture Section that had been founded in the meantime, he returned to the Dottenfelderhof where he resumed his work as a teacher at the company's internal agricultural school. For 21 years he has been following in parallel the development project of the village of Juchovo in Poland, with the aim of creating an institution in Eastern Europe in which the "creation of the Earth" (Novalis) presents itself as a social task and " the social question” finds an answer in the creation of the Earth.