Tobias Mager will speak as part of the Something Else Studio (a Uriel initiative) at the Christian Community Church in Hawthorn on Saturday 4 May 2024 from 3pm to 5pm. Come along to hear his thoughts on this topic.
I had a brief chat with Tobias at the Michael Centre community garden in Warranwood. You can listen to it here.
As Tobias sees it, today we experience that every square foot on Earth shows evidence of human impact, intervention or influence. Yet in most contemporary farming, the farmer’s freedom is reduced as so much is prescribed through the use of chemicals and fertilisers. The input and intuitions of the farmer grow less important. With the use of devices and machinery, the farmer’s will is also diminished. Farmers worldwide are growing overwhelmed in the realm of feeling leading to phenomena like depression.
In his talk at the Something Else studio at 3pm on 4 May 2024 at the Christian Community chapel in Hawthorn, Tobias will explore the role of the farmer as a co-creator of the landscape. He will describe the history of farming from hunter-gathering through the epochs into our current times and trace the place of biodynamics in that historical development. Tobias will also tell us how the use of biodynamic preparations can help farmers to bring their own capacities of thinking, feeling and intention into balance with the earth.
Tobias Mager has deep experience with biodynamic practice since he serendipitously found his way to a biodynamic garden in southern Germany. He had worked in a factory and studied mathematics and physics. Since then he has worked for a biodynamic seed company in Switzerland, in a Camphill Community, and at the Gawler Institute in the Yarra Valley. He now works at the Michael Centre, Warranwood, where he helps volunteers at the Biodynamic Community Garden. He also works together with another farmer at his own market garden, Silvertine Farm, near Warburton, where he grows vegetables to sell at the farm on Fridays as well as at the Eltham market.
recommended donation $20
members/concession $15 (or what you can afford)
Donations can be made into this bank account under ‘Uriel event’
The Christian Community in Australia Melbourne Inc
BSB 313 140, Account No. 12260444
Treasurer’s email: melb.treasurer@thechristiancommunity.net
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