The BDA staff team and BDA board have been gathering in deep conversations and holding particular sensitivity to the ongoing uncertainties and circumstances still facing our world this year, including the needs of the biodynamic communities we serve, and the meaningful and intensive work of unification of the BDA and Demeter USA. Given these dynamic times, we have determined that it will be in the best interest of the health of this emerging organization and the biodynamic ecosystem as a whole not to host a conference in 2021.
We know how important it is to come together as a community, and we understand how disappointing this will be to many. The uncertainties of this past year have challenged us all in many ways, including confronting some of our core assumptions. In some ways, these experiences have evolved our ways of gathering and celebrating and may provide for new and creative possibilities as we consider future in-person conferences. As we are in the midst of taking on the intricate work of unification, we are embracing and exploring how this process allows for new ideas about what we do, how we do it, and how we collaborate and co-create. As an organization, we are continuously striving to sense, observe, and develop understandings about how we can best serve the spirit of the biodynamic movement holistically. We hope in this hiatus to focus on innovative and fresh approaches and strategies that will best serve and help our community engage, learn, and connect, as well as to think deeply and generatively about how conferences might look in the future.
We hear and feel the strong need to find opportunities for connection with others who are also working with biodynamic agriculture. Even though we will not host a conference this year, we look forward to offering courses and salons and ways to connect with one another as the year progresses. Moreover, we encourage you to contact the regional biodynamic group nearest you to help you connect and become involved in activities closer to home. We also look forward to sharing information about any new groups forming; please let us know of any such efforts so we may help spread the word.
We also want to honor all the energy and enthusiasm of the communities in the Colorado region and to lift up the work being done there in addition to underscoring what it means to farm, garden, and steward within the region’s beautiful and diverse landscapes. We will be thinking more about how to do that, and appreciate any ideas or suggestions.
Please know the door is open to you to connect with all of us here about how our conferences may evolve as we look toward 2022, 2023, and the celebratory 100th anniversary of the Agriculture Course in 2024 by emailing [email protected].
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We know how important it is to come together as a community, and we understand how disappointing this will be to many. The uncertainties of this past year have challenged us all in many ways, including confronting some of our core assumptions. In some ways, these experiences have evolved our ways of gathering and celebrating and may provide for new and creative possibilities as we consider future in-person conferences. As we are in the midst of taking on the intricate work of unification, we are embracing and exploring how this process allows for new ideas about what we do, how we do it, and how we collaborate and co-create. As an organization, we are continuously striving to sense, observe, and develop understandings about how we can best serve the spirit of the biodynamic movement holistically. We hope in this hiatus to focus on innovative and fresh approaches and strategies that will best serve and help our community engage, learn, and connect, as well as to think deeply and generatively about how conferences might look in the future.
We hear and feel the strong need to find opportunities for connection with others who are also working with biodynamic agriculture. Even though we will not host a conference this year, we look forward to offering courses and salons and ways to connect with one another as the year progresses. Moreover, we encourage you to contact the regional biodynamic group nearest you to help you connect and become involved in activities closer to home. We also look forward to sharing information about any new groups forming; please let us know of any such efforts so we may help spread the word.
We also want to honor all the energy and enthusiasm of the communities in the Colorado region and to lift up the work being done there in addition to underscoring what it means to farm, garden, and steward within the region’s beautiful and diverse landscapes. We will be thinking more about how to do that, and appreciate any ideas or suggestions.
Please know the door is open to you to connect with all of us here about how our conferences may evolve as we look toward 2022, 2023, and the celebratory 100th anniversary of the Agriculture Course in 2024 by emailing [email protected].
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