Demeter Association
Resources and Links

Demeter International
Certification Board
Contact: Cornelia Hauenschild
Brandschneise 2, D-64295 Darmstadt
Phone: ++49-6155-8469-81
Fax: ++49-6155-8469-11
EMail: demeterbd@aol.com

English language website:
www.demeter.net

Description of the certification process:
www.demeter.net/erz/dic-main.html

Member contact information:
www.ecomarkt.nl/bdvereniging/internat.htm

• Demeter is the only organic association that has built up a network of individual certification organizations world-wide.

• Nineteen Demeter organizations in Europe, America, Africa and Australia belong to Demeter International and work according to the same obligatory standards.

• The common work includes guidelines, an individual evaluation and accreditation program, public relations work and lobbying.

• Work also includes the world-wide trademark protection.

• National office for non-profit organization which fosters knowledge of biodynamic agriculture, horticulture and forestry. Sponsor educational conferences throughout the United States.
• Members receive one year subscription to the bi-monthly Biodynamics journal, and discounts or books and some lab work at Woods End Research

• Education
• Biodynamic Publications
• Quarterly Newsletter, Applied Biodynamics
• Biodynamic preparations and sprays

• Conferences and workshops
• Six month student internship program
• International work on biodynamics
• Policy work at state and federal levels
• Regional support to the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement
• Newsletter
  

• Education on Biodynamic Gardening and Farming
• Gardening For Children
• Research
• Special work on bee-keeping

• Biodynamic Gardening Course, September through May
• Apprenticeship opportunities
• Biodynamic garden
• Seed saving initiative
• Rudolf Steiner College Calendar of Events include; related lecture topics
• Headquarters of the Biodynamic Association of Northern California
  

Regional Biodynamic Associations

Biodynamic Association of
Southern California
Contact: Wiep deVries and Mil Krecu
647 Devirian Place
Altadena CA. 91001
(626) 798-1592

Biodynamics Hawaii
Contact: Phyl Dwyer
2514 Alaula Way
Honolulu, HI 96822
(808) 988-4555

Oregon Biodynamic Group
(Pacific Northwest)
Contact: Neil Austin
12364 Mascher Road
Silverton, OR. 97381
(503) 873-2349

Northeast Farmers Association
Contact: Lincoln Geiger
RFD #1 Box 344
Wilton, NH. 03086
(603) 878-4019

Caribbean/Central America
Contact: Christoph Meier
KM 8.5, PO8 IS
Los Amos, Azua
Dominican Republic
(809) 521-3571

Bio-Dynamic Agriculture
Society of British Columbia
Contact: Inge Moerth
2031-22 St. NE
Salmon Arm, BC V1E 3E5
(250) 832-5401

Society for Biodynamic Farming
and Gardening in Ontario
Contact: Peter Linke
162 Church St.
Orangeville, Ontario L9W 1P4
(519) 941-4525

Quebec Biodynamic Association
Contact: Francine Boissonnault
524 St-Joseph West
St.Alban, Quebec Canada GoA 3Bo
(418) 268-5588

Biodynamic page on ATTRA website:
www.attra.org/attra-pub/biodynamic.html

• ATTRA handles a wide range of material on sustainable agriculture.
• ATTRA's Biodynamic page provides a comprehensive presentation of the Biodynamic agriculture movement. It mentions some practices used by some contemporary practitioners of Biodynamics, though not endorsed by the Demeter Association.
• Site contains excellent links, research and resources.

• National office of the worldwide Anthroposophical Society
• Society founded by Rudolf Steiner in 1923 as "an association of people who would foster the life of the soul, both in the individual and in human society, on the basis of a true knowledge of the spiritual world."