Gardening Course
and Masterclasses
Hosted by Wholistic Living University
with Hans-Günther Kern
30% Discount to Celebrate the Forest Row Community Composting Project "Soil Factory"
Receive the 30% Discount when you book the 'Biodynamic Composting Workshops on the 3rd and 17th May', or any of the 'Online Biodynamic Gardening Courses' "Grow Your Own Health". Discounts apply until the 3rd of May.
The One Year Online GYOH Course is broken down into thirty eight, one and a half hour long recorded sessions and 38 Q & A sessions on a weekly basis, supported by pdf handouts, guiding new participants through the year and the seasonal changes.
Option 1 or the VIP Private Online Course Membership will give you optimal access to 38 recorded and themed sessions of this online course and 38 interactive, live Q&A sessions. This option 1 includes a lively interactive international WhatsApp Forum.
Option 2 or the Premium Private Online Course Membership provides you with a more flexible access to all 76 sessions which are recorded for you in video and audio format.
At the same time, you have the possibility to connect with other participants and the course leaders through the WhatsApp Forum.
Option 3 or the Basic Private Online Course Membership gives you the freedom to connect at any time with all the recorded and the pdf handouts.
The Option 4 or the Community Forum will give you access to our lively interactive international community of avid, regenerative garderners, growers and landscape gardeners.
NEW
We added another online option for you if you are just getting started with your garden or don’t have too much time to commit to a whole course.
Option 5 gives you an opportunity to connect on a monthly basis with seasonal suggestions and basic biodynamic guidelines about your garden and health.
If you sign up for 12 Masterclasses you get free access to the WhatsApp Community Forum.
People in 7 countries find it very helpful to study from the comfort of their own home, practicing every week the new insights in the own gardens and land holdings.
GYOH Calendar Club Online Course Series
We invite you warmly to join our monthly LIVE GYOH CALENDAR CLUB UPDATE with tips about sowing, planting, soil care composting and harvesting in harmony with the rhythms of nature and the cosmos.
The GYOH Calendar Club is a monthly online course series for gardeners and farmers based on our master gardener’s 45 years of experience working in many soils and climatic zones of the world.
Online Master Classes
Make use of Universal Gardening Principles to grow more resilient, higher yielding and nutritious produce
Prices of organic and biodynamic vegetables bought in shops have been soaring and the produce is far from fresh. It’s become clear that produce grown close to home is filled with love and light, colour and crunchy texture, plus high-quality nutrition we won’t find elsewhere.
With the increasing number of people attempting growing their own food we want to make sure you get the support you deserve to start your garden in your backyard or with a community of like-minded people.
online course
membership options
& Masterclasses
(if you choose to make a one time payment upfront for the 12 MASTERCLASSES plus free access to the WhatsApp Community Forum for the year)
- Newsletter
- Information (includes youtube link)
- Newsletter
- Information (includes youtube link)
- Newsletter
- Information (includes youtube link)
- Newsletter
- Information (includes youtube link)
Basic membership
Newsletter, blogs and updates
All free links & Youtube content
+ Video / Audio / PDFs
+ 38 Recorded Sessions / Presentation of course material.
+ 38 Q+A Sessions Recorded (Question & Answer)
Plus two Practical Workshops for free
Premium Membership
Newsletter, blogs and updates
All free links & Youtube content
+ Video / Audio / PDFs
+ 38 Recorded Sessions / Presentation of course material.
+ 38 Q+A Sessions Recorded (Question & Answer)
+ Access to the Live Forum, including access to all participants & teachers (Forum value £120)
Plus three Practical Workshops for free
VIP Membership
Newsletter, blogs and updates
All free links & Youtube content
+ Video / Audio / PDFs
+ 38 Recorded Sessions / Presentation of course material.
+ 38 Q+A Sessions Recorded (Question & Answer)
+ Access to the Live Forum, including access to all participants & teachers (Whatsapp value £120)
+ Live Q & A sessions
Plus five Practical Workshops for free
Online Master Classes
12 MASTERCLASSES
Make use of Universal Gardening Principles to grow more resilient, higher yielding and nutritious produce
An opportunity to connect on a monthly basis with seasonal suggestions and basic biodynamic guidelines about your garden and health.
- Newsletter
- Information (includes youtube link)
- Newsletter
- Information (includes youtube link)
- Newsletter
- Information (includes youtube link)
- Newsletter
- Information (includes youtube link)
Basic membership
Newsletter, blogs and updates
All free links & Youtube content
+ Video / Audio / PDFs
+ 38 Recorded Sessions / Presentation of course material.
+ 38 Q+A Sessions Recorded (Question & Answer)
Plus two Practical Workshops for free
Premium Membership
Newsletter, blogs and updates
All free links & Youtube content
+ Video / Audio / PDFs
+ 38 Recorded Sessions / Presentation of course material.
+ 38 Q+A Sessions Recorded (Question & Answer)
+ Access to the Live Forum, including access to all participants & teachers (Forum value £120)
Plus three Practical Workshops for free
VIP Membership
Newsletter, blogs and updates
All free links & Youtube content
+ Video / Audio / PDFs
+ 38 Recorded Sessions / Presentation of course material.
+ 38 Q+A Sessions Recorded (Question & Answer)
+ Access to the Live Forum, including access to all participants & teachers (Whatsapp value £120)
+ Live Q & A sessions
Plus five Practical Workshops for free
Online Master Classes
12 MASTERCLASSES
Make use of Universal Gardening Principles to grow more resilient, higher yielding and nutritious produce
An opportunity to connect on a monthly basis with seasonal suggestions and basic biodynamic guidelines about your garden and health.
If you are interested to receive your access to the free Practical Workshops,
please send an email stating your interest.
Traditionally we started the practical workshops in October.
Though this year I realised we need to change the presentation style so the workshops become even more experiential and wholesome for the participants and
that we need to find new venues.
That means we are going to start a new series of practical workshops in the New Year 2026 giving you even a deeper experience of what it means to “Grow Your Own Health”.
online course membership options
- Newsletter
- Information (includes youtube link)
- Newsletter
- Information (includes youtube link)
- Newsletter
- Information (includes youtube link)
Basic membership
Newsletter, blogs and updates
All free links & Youtube content
+ Video / Audio / PDFs
+ 38 Recorded Sessions / Presentation of course material.
+ 38 Q+A Sessions Recorded (Question & Answer)
Plus two Practical Workshops for free
Premium Membership
Newsletter, blogs and updates
All free links & Youtube content
+ Video / Audio / PDFs
+ 38 Recorded Sessions / Presentation of course material.
+ 38 Q+A Sessions Recorded (Question & Answer)
+ Access to the Live Forum, including access to all participants & teachers (Forum value £120)
Plus three Practical Workshops for free
VIP Membership
Newsletter, blogs and updates
All free links & Youtube content
+ Video / Audio / PDFs
+ 38 Recorded Sessions / Presentation of course material.
+ 38 Q+A Sessions Recorded (Question & Answer)
+ Access to the Live Forum, including access to all participants & teachers (Whatsapp value £120)
+ Live Q & A sessions
Plus five Practical Workshops for free
- Newsletter
- Information (includes youtube link)
- Newsletter
- Information (includes youtube link)
- Newsletter
- Information (includes youtube link)
Basic membership
Newsletter, blogs and updates
All free links & Youtube content
+ Video / Audio / PDFs
+ 38 Recorded Sessions / Presentation of course material.
+ 38 Q+A Sessions Recorded (Question & Answer)
Plus two Practical Workshops for free
Premium Membership
Newsletter, blogs and updates
All free links & Youtube content
+ Video / Audio / PDFs
+ 38 Recorded Sessions / Presentation of course material.
+ 38 Q+A Sessions Recorded (Question & Answer)
+ Access to the Live Forum, including access to all participants & teachers (Forum value £120)
Plus three Practical Workshops for free
VIP Membership
Newsletter, blogs and updates
All free links & Youtube content
+ Video / Audio / PDFs
+ 38 Recorded Sessions / Presentation of course material.
+ 38 Q+A Sessions Recorded (Question & Answer)
+ Access to the Live Forum, including access to all participants & teachers (Whatsapp value £120)
+ Live Q & A sessions
Plus five Practical Workshops for free
GYOH Forum
Join the Grow Your Own Health Forum and meet a world-wide community of like minded people focusing on the biodynamic principles that are vital for all our futures.
Regenerate the vitality, diversity and structure of our soils, farms, gardens and in ourselves.
We are looking forward to welcoming you to our international forum.
“In the online setting, you will find yourself becoming innovative and creative, breaking out of the mould you were in.”
“You will find yourself exploring with others how to grow vegetables with the most vitality, taste, texture, colour and nourishment, and creating health-giving and beautiful environments.”
online course
other benefits
In the online setting, you will find yourself becoming innovative and creative, breaking out of the mould you were in.
You will find yourself exploring with others how to grow vegetables with the most vitality, taste, texture, colour and nourishment, and creating health-giving and beautiful environments.
Module I: Introduction to Biodynamic Gardening
Module 2: Designing your garden for health and nourishment
Module 3: Soil fertility management with a biodynamic approach
Module 4: Nursery work in a biodynamic setting
Module 5: The Biodynamic Compost, Fertilisation, the Dynamic Rotation, Successions, Intercropping and Companion Planting
Module 6: The Biodynamic Custodianship and Creating a Biodiverse Living Organism
Module 7: Securing the Future of Gardening: Bio-dynamic Preparations and Seed Reproduction
Module 8: The Biodynamic Garden in Autumn and Winter. Reaping the Harvest, Storage and Food Conservation
Who is it for?
If you are passionate about learning new ways of growing vegetables, herbs, flowers and fruit for yourself or others, creating the building blocks for optimal health, and exploring new lifestyle choices for increasing energy and vitality with a warm and lively community of both like-minded professionals and amateurs, then these are courses for you!
Typically this course attracts leaders in the field of:
- regenerative and community supported food production
- environmental healers
- integrative medicine, healing and wholistic therapies
- artisans and craftsmen
- educators and innovative thinkers
- synthesis between immersion in nature and AI, engineering and the trades
If you are willing to live at the frontier of regenerating a new Culture to create the New Earth this course is for you.
We focus on a temperate climate, but the core principles of biodynamic gardening are transferable to wherever you are in the world in different climatic zones.
In the online setting, you will find yourself becoming innovative and creative, breaking out of the mould you were in.
You will find yourself exploring with others how to grow vegetables with the most vitality, taste, texture, colour and nourishment, and creating health-giving and beautiful environments.
Individual modules are designed so you can also take them on a one-off basis and join at any time.
Hosted by Wholistic Living University
with Hans-Gunther Kern
online biodynamic
gardening course
Reclaim your custodianship of the Earth
Hans-Gūnther Kern has given eight modules of practical, hands-on workshops for decades in 6 different countries.
The workshops were transformed into an online format consisting of 8 modules, broken down into 38 one and a half hour long sessions, supported by a power point presentation once per week.
Every Friday we send out prerecorded session material to prepare for the Thursday live and interactive Q & A session with Hans-Gūnther Kern.
The recorded sessions are available via a link to participants at any time.
In addition you will get access to the Whatsapp Group Forum.
online course
In this Online Course you learn about the biodynamic approach to gardening and health.
You will be expose to experiences, insights and comparative studies traditional wisdom, contemporary life sciences and modern discoveries in the field of research in light and sound, the ethers, phenomenology and other cutting edge sciences which we use to apply to enhance the resilience, quality and abundance of food crops and for healing the environment by creating more biodiversity in harmony with our approach to growing food.
You’ll learn through theory and practical examples, which you can apply and test in your own garden.
You will be accompanied and mentored by the contributors and will be connected, if you wish every day to the community of our university learning platform, where everyone is a student, learner and practitioner, where you can give in your own right advice from your own research, experimenting, practice and studies (for specific subjects see individual modules and sessions).
We are open to an international audience of participants, practitioners and researchers, spreading the biodynamic grass roots network across the globe. Imagine yourself like the living soil mycelium spreading around the globe in a community of like-minded spirits healing our Earth.
structure
Hans-Gūnther Kern has developed 8 modules of practical, hands-on workshops for decades in 6 different countries. With lockdown in March 2020 these practical workshops were put on hold in many countries.
So, I transcribed the workshops into an online format consisting of 8 modules, broken down into 38 one and a half hour long
sessions, supported by a PDF handout and study material.
People in 7 countries find it still helpful to study from the comfort of their own home on a regular basis.
We now send out every Friday the pre-recorded session material and access to the PDFstudy material to prepare for the Thursday live and interactive Q & A session with Hans-Günther present to go over the subject of the week, where you may bring your family and friends free of charge.
You get a life-time access to the recorded sessions and can enjoy them as audio or video experiences, wherever you have
Internet access or as downloads at any time.
Hans-Günther in addition to this online experience now offers practical biodynamic gardening workshops in 8 Modules for beginners
in two locations:
- Ringwood, Hampshire, 8 mini workshops (3 hours each)
- Forest Row, Sussex, 8 mini workshops (3 hours each)
- Intermediate and advanced learners workshops in 8 Modules in: Forest Row, Sussex, 8 day workshops (6 hours each)
- Intermediate and advanced learners workshops in 8 Modules in: Forest Row, Sussex, 8 day workshops (6 hours each)
(see the 1 year practical biodynamic gardening workshops brochure)
Wholistic Living University
Whatsapp Group Forum
(for Premium Membership and above only)
In this private group we all share insights, links and observations about the biodynamic approach to gardening and farming, natural health care solutions, conscious movement, relaxation and empowering lifestyle choices.
In the WLU private group Hans-Günther Kern will post weekly information about:
- The influences of the heavenly bodies upon our own lives and how we can use these forces to benefit our daily activities in our gardens
- Weather predictions based on latest weather forecast and cosmic influences (South-East UK)
- Weekly work suggestions, tip and tricks to implement in the garden and your own lives
- Which vegetables, herbs, wild plants and fruits are currently available to enhance our nutrition
Hopefully these signposts will enable you to discover your own path to happiness, wellness and abundance, by tuning in to the rhythms of Nature, finding harmony with the natural environment and joining a community of like-minded spirits where you can share your own experiences and inspirations. As we grow, we also will include news about other climatic zones in this growing community.
Spread the love and be the change
Hosted by Wholistic Living University
with Hans-Gunther Kern
online biodynamic
gardening course
Reclaim your custodianship of the Earth
Hans-Gūnther Kern has given eight modules of practical, hands-on workshops for decades in 6 different countries.
The workshops were transformed into an online format consisting of 8 modules, broken down into 38 one and a half hour long sessions, supported by a power point presentation once per week.
Every Friday we send out prerecorded session material to prepare for the Thursday live and interactive Q & A session with Hans-Gūnther Kern.
The recorded sessions are available via a link to participants at any time.
In addition you will get access to the Whatsapp Group Forum.
Wholistic Living University
Whatsapp Group Forum
(for Premium Membership and above only)
In this private group we all share insights, links and observations about the biodynamic approach to gardening and farming, natural health care solutions, conscious movement, relaxation and empowering lifestyle choices.
In the WLU private group Hans-Günther Kern will post weekly information about:
- The influences of the heavenly bodies upon our own lives and how we can use these forces to benefit our daily activities in our gardens
- Weather predictions based on latest weather forecast and cosmic influences (South-East UK)
- Weekly work suggestions, tip and tricks to implement in the garden and your own lives
- Which vegetables, herbs, wild plants and fruits are currently available to enhance our nutrition
Hopefully these signposts will enable you to discover your own path to happiness, wellness and abundance, by tuning in to the rhythms of Nature, finding harmony with the natural environment and joining a community of like-minded spirits where you can share your own experiences and inspirations. As we grow, we also will include news about other climatic zones in this growing community.
Spread the love and be the change
Reclaim your custodianship of the Earth
In this Online Course you learn about the biodynamic approach to gardening and health.
You will be expose to experiences, insights and comparative studies traditional wisdom, contemporary life sciences and modern discoveries in the field of research in light and sound, the ethers, phenomenology and other cutting edge sciences which we use to apply to enhance the resilience, quality and abundance of food crops and for healing the environment by creating more biodiversity in harmony with our approach to growing food.
You’ll learn through theory and practical examples, which you can apply and test in your own garden.
You will be accompanied and mentored by the contributors and will be connected, if you wish every day to the community of our university learning platform, where everyone is a student, learner and practitioner, where you can give in your own right advice from your own research, experimenting, practice and studies (for specific subjects see individual modules and sessions).
We are open to an international audience of participants, practitioners and researchers, spreading the biodynamic grass roots network across the globe. Imagine yourself like the living soil mycelium spreading around the globe in a community of like-minded spirits healing our Earth.
In the online setting, you will find yourself becoming innovative and creative, breaking out of the mould you were in.
You will find yourself exploring with others how to grow vegetables with the most vitality, taste, texture, colour and nourishment, and creating health-giving and beautiful environments.
Individual modules are designed so you can also take them on a one-off basis and join at any time.
For more than 3 decades Hans-Günther has evolved the Practical and Theoretical Workshops, which he had taught first at Emerson College from 1984-93.
He has adapted the biodynamic gardening workshops to be suitable for beginners, intermediate learners and seasoned gardeners alike, while teaching in the United States, Mexico and Spain to support private gardeners and professional growers alike.
In 2020 he was encouraged to transform the practical workshops into an online format consisting of eight modules integrating aspects of personal development in respect to mental health, preventative health care and well-being.
After many years of studies in nutrition, neuroscience, movement therapy, life and professional coaching, service in the well-being industry and the realisation about the increase in chronic illness, Hans Günther added above subjects into his online platform.
The One Year Online GYOH Course is broken down into thirty eight, one and a half hour long recorded sessions and 38 Q & A sessions on a weekly basis, supported by a pdf handouts, guiding new participants through the year and the seasonal changes.
Option 1 or the VIP Private Online Course Membership will give you optimal access to 38 recorded and themed sessions of this online course and 38 interactive, live Q&A sessions. This option 1 includes a lively interactive international WhatsApp Forum.
Option 2 or the Premium Private Online Course Membership provides you with a more flexible access to all 76 sessions which are recorded for you in video and audio format.
At the same time, you have the possibility to connect with other participants and the course leaders through the WhatsApp Forum.
Option 3 or the Basic Private Online Course Membership gives you the freedom to connect at any time with all the recorded and the pdf handouts.
Option 4 or the WhatsApp Forum will give you access to our lively interactive international community of avid, regenerative garderners, growers and landscape gardeners.
People in 7 countries find it very helpful to study from the comfort of their own home, practicing every week the new insights in the own gardens and land holdings.
online course
other benefits
In the online setting, you will find yourself becoming innovative and creative, breaking out of the mould you were in.
You will find yourself exploring with others how to grow vegetables with the most vitality, taste, texture, colour and nourishment, and creating health-giving and beautiful environments.
Individual modules are designed so you can also take them on a one-off basis and join at any time.
Module I: Introduction to Biodynamic Gardening
- 1 The biodynamic principles and approach to gardening
- 2 Preparing your garden infrastructure and improving soil conditions
- 3 Introduction to creating your planting plan and sizing your garden
- 4 Biodynamic gardening resources: tools and equipment. Working with rhythms, relationships and biodynamic preparations
- 5 Rhythms in nature and planting with the stars
Module 2: Designing your garden for health and nourishment
- 6 Basics of Garden Planning
- 7 Sizing your Garden and the Sowing Calendar
- 8 Seed selection, order and preparation for sowing
- 9 Investing in your garden and longevity
Module 3: Soil fertility management with a biodynamic approach
- 10 Origin of different soils and significance of the microbiome
- 11 Simple ways to getting to know your soil
- 12 Plants as indicators for soil types, fertility and the pH
- 13 How to cultivate and improve different types of soils
- 14 Celebration of the natural and cultivated flora and fauna
- 15 The Vocation of plants and soils
- 16 Soil Fertility Management
Module 4: Nursery work in a biodynamic setting
- 17 The Nursery and managing controlled environments
- 18 How to make your own best potting mixes
- 19 Nursery management: Sowing, pricking out and
transplanting
Module 5: The Biodynamic Compost, Fertilisation, the Dynamic Rotation, Successions, Intercropping and Companion Planting
- 20 The benefits of dynamic composting and regenerating soils
- 21 The biodynamic compost and feeding the microbiome of the soil
- 22 From Crop Rotation to Companion Planting
- 23 Bio-dynamic remedial methods and resources
- 24 Alleviating deficiencies and bio-dynamic subtle fertilisation
Module 6: The Biodynamic Custodianship and Creating a Biodiverse Living Organism
- 25 The Bio-dynamic approach to balancing the Fauna and Flora Part 1
- 26 The Bio-dynamic approach to balancing the Fauna & Flora Part 2
- 27 The significance of the Summer Solstice Part 1: Planning your autumn garden
- 28 The significance of the Summer Solstice Part 2: Universal life
Module 7: Securing the Future of Gardening: Bio-dynamic Preparations and Seed Reproduction
- 29 Deepening the understanding of biodynamic preparations.
- 30 How to use the Maria Thun Biodynamic planting calendar
- 31 The bio-dynamic approach to dealing with climate change
- 32 The bio-dynamic approach to reproducing seeds: Part 1
- 33 The bio-dynamic approach to reproducing seeds: Part 2
- 34 Preparing for the Autumn and Winter garden.
Module 8: The Biodynamic Garden in Autumn and Winter. Reaping the Harvest, Storage and Food Conservation
- 35 The Earth as a Living, Inter-connected Organism
- 36 Session 20 Benefits and the Making of the Biodynamic preparations
- 37 Reaping the Harvest and Giving Back
- 38 Prepare the Winter Garden and the Best Storage for the Harvest
Who is it for?
If you are passionate about learning new ways of growing vegetables, herbs, flowers and fruit for yourself or others, creating the building blocks for optimal health, and exploring new lifestyle choices for increasing energy and vitality with a warm and lively community of both like-minded professionals and amateurs, then these are courses for you!
Typically this course attracts leaders in the field of:
- regenerative and community supported food production
- environmental healers
- integrative medicine, healing and wholistic therapies
- artisans and craftsmen
- educators and innovative thinkers
- synthesis between immersion in nature and AI, engineering and the trades
If you are willing to live at the frontier of regenerating a new Culture to create the New Earth this course is for you.
We focus on a temperate climate, but the core principles of biodynamic gardening are transferable to wherever you are in the world in different climatic zones.
online course
In this Online Course you learn about the biodynamic approach to gardening and health.
You will be expose to experiences, insights and comparative studies traditional wisdom, contemporary life sciences and modern discoveries in the field of research in light and sound, the ethers, phenomenology and other cutting edge sciences which we use to apply to enhance the resilience, quality and abundance of food crops and for healing the environment by creating more biodiversity in harmony with our approach to growing food.
You’ll learn through theory and practical examples, which you can apply and test in your own garden.
You will be accompanied and mentored by the contributors and will be connected, if you wish every day to the community of our university learning platform, where everyone is a student, learner and practitioner, where you can give in your own right advice from your own research, experimenting, practice and studies (for specific subjects see individual modules and sessions).
We are open to an international audience of participants, practitioners and researchers, spreading the biodynamic grass roots network across the globe. Imagine yourself like the living soil mycelium spreading around the globe in a community of like-minded spirits healing our Earth.
structure
Hans-Gūnther Kern has developed 8 modules of practical, hands-on workshops for decades in 6 different countries. With lockdown in March 2020 these practical workshops were put on hold in many countries.
So, I transcribed the workshops into an online format consisting of 8 modules, broken down into 38 one and a half hour long
sessions, supported by a PDF handout and study material.
People in 7 countries find it still helpful to study from the comfort of their own home on a regular basis.
We now send out every Friday the pre-recorded session material and access to the PDFstudy material to prepare for the Thursday live and interactive Q & A session with Hans-Günther present to go over the subject of the week, where you may bring your family and friends free of charge.
You get a life-time access to the recorded sessions and can enjoy them as audio or video experiences, wherever you have
Internet access or as downloads at any time.
Hans-Günther in addition to this online experience now offers practical biodynamic gardening workshops in 8 Modules for beginners
in two locations:
- Ringwood, Hampshire, 8 mini workshops (3 hours each)
- Forest Row, Sussex, 8 mini workshops (3 hours each)
- Intermediate and advanced learners workshops in 8 Modules in: Forest Row, Sussex, 8 day workshops (6 hours each)
- Intermediate and advanced learners workshops in 8 Modules in: Forest Row, Sussex, 8 day workshops (6 hours each)
(see the 1 year practical biodynamic gardening workshops brochure)
Module I: Introduction to Biodynamic Gardening
- 1 The biodynamic principles and approach to gardening
- 2 Preparing your garden infrastructure and improving soil conditions
- 3 Introduction to creating your planting plan and sizing your garden
- 4 Biodynamic gardening resources: tools and equipment. Working with rhythms, relationships and biodynamic preparations
- 5 Rhythms in nature and planting with the stars
Module 2: Designing your garden for health and nourishment
- 6 Basics of Garden Planning
- 7 Sizing your Garden and the Sowing Calendar
- 8 Seed selection, order and preparation for sowing
- 9 Investing in your garden and longevity
Module 3: Soil fertility management with a biodynamic approach
- 10 Origin of different soils and significance of the microbiome
- 11 Simple ways to getting to know your soil
- 12 Plants as indicators for soil types, fertility and the pH
- 13 How to cultivate and improve different types of soils
- 14 Celebration of the natural and cultivated flora and fauna
- 15 The Vocation of plants and soils
- 16 Soil Fertility Management
Module 4: Nursery work in a biodynamic setting
- 17 The Nursery and managing controlled environments
- 18 How to make your own best potting mixes
- 19 Nursery management: Sowing, pricking out and
transplanting
Module 5: The Biodynamic Compost, Fertilisation, the Dynamic Rotation, Successions, Intercropping and Companion Planting
- 20 The benefits of dynamic composting and regenerating soils
- 21 The biodynamic compost and feeding the microbiome of the soil
- 22 From Crop Rotation to Companion Planting
- 23 Bio-dynamic remedial methods and resources
- 24 Alleviating deficiencies and bio-dynamic subtle fertilisation
Module 6: The Biodynamic Custodianship and Creating a Biodiverse Living Organism
- 25 The Bio-dynamic approach to balancing the Fauna and Flora Part 1
- 26 The Bio-dynamic approach to balancing the Fauna & Flora Part 2
- 27 The significance of the Summer Solstice Part 1: Planning your autumn garden
- 28 The significance of the Summer Solstice Part 2: Universal life
Module 7: Securing the Future of Gardening: Bio-dynamic Preparations and Seed Reproduction
- 29 Deepening the understanding of biodynamic preparations.
- 30 How to use the Maria Thun Biodynamic planting calendar
- 31 The bio-dynamic approach to dealing with climate change
- 32 The bio-dynamic approach to reproducing seeds: Part 1
- 33 The bio-dynamic approach to reproducing seeds: Part 2
- 34 Preparing for the Autumn and Winter garden.
Module 8: The Biodynamic Garden in Autumn and Winter. Reaping the Harvest, Storage and Food Conservation
- 35 The Earth as a Living, Inter-connected Organism
- 36 Session 20 Benefits and the Making of the Biodynamic preparations
- 37 Reaping the Harvest and Giving Back
- 38 Prepare the Winter Garden and the Best Storage for the Harvest
Who is it for?
If you are passionate about learning new ways of growing vegetables, herbs, flowers and fruit for yourself or others, creating the building blocks for optimal health, and exploring new lifestyle choices for increasing energy and vitality with a warm and lively community of both like-minded professionals and amateurs, then these are courses for you!
Typically this course attracts leaders in the field of:
- regenerative and community supported food production
- environmental healers
- integrative medicine, healing and wholistic therapies
- artisans and craftsmen
- educators and innovative thinkers
- synthesis between immersion in nature and AI, engineering and the trades
If you are willing to live at the frontier of regenerating a new Culture to create the New Earth this course is for you.
We focus on a temperate climate, but the core principles of biodynamic gardening are transferable to wherever you are in the world in different climatic zones.
other benefits
online course
In the online setting, you will find yourself becoming innovative and creative, breaking out of the mould you were in.
You will find yourself exploring with others how to grow vegetables with the most vitality, taste, texture, colour and nourishment, and creating health-giving and beautiful environments.
Individual modules are designed so you can also take them on a one-off basis and join at any time.
Hosted by Wholistic Living University
with Hans-Gunther Kern
online biodynamic
gardening course
Reclaim your custodianship of the Earth
Hans-Gūnther Kern has given eight modules of practical, hands-on workshops for decades in 6 different countries.
The workshops were transformed into an online format consisting of 8 modules, broken down into 38 one and a half hour long sessions, supported by a power point presentation once per week.
Every Friday we send out prerecorded session material to prepare for the Thursday live and interactive Q & A session with Hans-Gūnther Kern.
The recorded sessions are available via a link to participants at any time.
In addition you will get access to the Whatsapp Group Forum.