Step by Step Introduction to Biodynamic Gardening Feb to July 2025 – North Wales
20th January 2021
Biodynamic Gardening Club Events 2023 – Growing your biodynamic gardening know-how
22nd January 2020
Venue: Whites Farm, Lower Dean, Buckfastleigh, Devon TQ11 0LS
Garden Teacher: Franky Van Der Stok
Session dates 2025: 8th Feb; 8th Mar; 12th April; 10th May; 14th June; 12th July
Programme outline
Session 1 – Seed connects with Soil
Session 2 – Planning our garden
Session 3 – The Plant between the Sun and Earth
Session 4 – The Biodynamic Preparations
Session 5 – Tending the garden
Session 6 – The garden as an organism
About Franky Van Der Stok:
Franky has been immersed in biodynamics since childhood and has over 50 years of biodynamicexpertise in both farming and gardening. Franky kept poultry, sheep and goats as a child and later took on responsibility for the farm at Botton Campbell Community as a young man. After 8 years he moved his family to Hapstead in Devon, where he built up the farm to supply produce for the community. He specialised in breeding cattle and managed this farm for over 30 years. Franky’spassion now is to share his knowledge and promote the further development of biodynamic work.
About Whites Farm:
Whites Farm Education Trust is a 3 acre land based educational project bordering the Dean Burn river and set in an area of outstanding natural beauty on the edge of Dartmoor. The gardens include a kitchen garden, a market garden and a 70 tree apple orchard with some pear and cherry
trees. The land has been managed organically for 10 years and has been gardened biodynamically since Whitsun 2021.
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