Issue 10: July 2021 Summer's in Swing... Dear friends,We are delighted to bring you this summer issue on “Fostering Community through Agriculture.” We at FHC strongly believe in the power of nature and farming to teach us how to build community. Access to nourishing food is a prerequisite for health and should be a right and a responsibility shared equally by … [Read more...] about Summer 2021: Fostering Community Through Agriculture
Summer 2021: Fostering Community Through Agriculture
Biodynamics, Social Justice and Rudolf Steiner’s Agriculture Course
An article by Cory Eichman, Biodynamic Farm Manager at the Saugeen River CSA in Ontario One of the first thoughts Rudolf Steiner brings in the Agriculture Course, his 1924 series of lectures to farmers that form the basis of biodynamics, is that “Agriculture touches every aspect of human life.” So the question isn’t “Does biodynamics have anything to do with social … [Read more...] about Biodynamics, Social Justice and Rudolf Steiner’s Agriculture Course
Youth and Nature
Dear Friends,We hope you enjoy this first episode of recorded conversation hosted by the Foundation for Health Creation (FHC). In this episode, titled “Youth and Nature” (see video below), we filmed an unscripted conversation between young people from different backgrounds and parts of the country. All of them are genuinely searching for answers through nature and new ways of … [Read more...] about Youth and Nature
Spring 2021: Helping Ourselves by Helping Each Other
Issue 9: March 2021 It's a new beginning... Dear friends,Happy Spring, Happy Easter, and to our friends celebrating Passover, we wish you a meaningful Seder! As the day lengthens and the light moves higher in the heavens, the earth springs to life- in birdsong, budding leaves and flowers, busy bees- all beckoning us to crawl out of our caves to come greet the … [Read more...] about Spring 2021: Helping Ourselves by Helping Each Other
Reimagining Health and Wealth
by John Bloom As young children, my brother and I would visit our grandmother at the home for the aged. She would look at us and say, even into her nineties, “If you are healthy, you are wealthy.” That was a first mysterious inkling of how simple wisdom connects apparent disparity. Now that I am ten times older than that memory, her wisdom has settled into warm appreciation … [Read more...] about Reimagining Health and Wealth