Earth · Consciousness · Healing
The Biodynamic Farm
Where working the soil and working with people meet — a collaboration taking shape.
Some healing does not begin in a treatment room. It begins in the soil.
Over the coming year I am joining the Biodynamic Hub — an educational farm in the Latrun area of Israel — as a practitioner. The farm already runs courses and gatherings in biodynamic agriculture. What we are working toward is bringing together two things that were never really separate: working with the earth, and working with people.
What biodynamic agriculture actually is
Biodynamic farming was founded in the 1920s by Rudolf Steiner — the same thinker behind Waldorf education. It predates modern organic farming, and it differs from it on one fundamental point.
Conventional farming asks: how do we grow more? Organic farming asks: how do we grow without toxins?
Biodynamics asks something else entirely: how do we restore the soil’s vitality?
The premise is that if the soil itself is healthy, fertile and resilient, the plants growing in it will be naturally robust. You do not need to fight pests if the plant is strong enough. So the focus is not the vegetables — it is the ground they grow in.
In biodynamic farming we do not grow vegetables. We grow the soil — and the vegetables follow.
Why this speaks to me
When I first encountered this approach, what caught me was not the agriculture. It was the parallel.
Biodynamics treats soil as a living entity — something with vitality, condition, and forces that can be depleted or renewed. A sick plant is not read as a problem to spray, but as a sign that something underneath is wrong.
That is precisely how I work with people. A symptom is not the enemy. It is a message. Treat only the symptom and it returns wearing a different face.
Soil degraded over decades does not recover through fertiliser. It recovers when the conditions for life are returned to it. People, in my experience, are not so different.
Who leads the farm
Dr. Yael Almog Stein came to biodynamic agriculture from the least likely place — thirty years of medicine.
She worked at Hadassah as a physician, researcher and lecturer at the Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine: anaesthesiology, pain clinic, cardiology, occupational and environmental health research, medical administration, and a master’s in public health.
In 2021 her medical career stopped because of a severe chemical sensitivity. After a long period of illness she left the hospital, and chose something entirely opposite: to be outdoors, in the air, working with life rather than with disease.
She trained under Nitzan Shpilman, one of the leading figures in Israeli biodynamic agriculture and founder of “Vitalis — Biodynamic Israel”, and now teaches his foundation course in the Jerusalem and Judean lowlands region. She also keeps bees biodynamically.
What makes her an unusual teacher is exactly that background. She explains soil the way a physician explains a body — connecting the health of the earth to the health of the person in a way I have not heard anywhere else.
What is planned
The collaboration between Quantum Healing Field and the Biodynamic Hub is taking shape. The direction: gatherings that combine work in the field with healing, breath and consciousness work.
The idea is simple. A morning that begins with hands in the soil and continues into quieter work — breath, meditation, energetic practice. Not two separate events, but one movement: from the material inward, and back again.
These are not open for booking yet. When dates are set, they will be announced here and to the waiting list.
What is running now — with Yael
The Biodynamic Hub’s own programme is already active and can be joined directly:
- Introductory farm evenings — free, an evening to meet the place and hear the background to biodynamic agriculture.
- Biodynamic vegetable growing course — 10 sessions, fortnightly mornings, with practical fieldwork. It covers soil preparation, bed building, sowing and planting, biodynamic preparations, irrigation, pest management, biodynamic compost, the biodynamic calendar and tree care.
- Container growing short course — 3 sessions over two weeks, without sprays or harmful chemicals. No prior knowledge needed, and you can attend on the farm or over Zoom. Well suited to anyone with a balcony, a small yard or a few planters.
- Human and soil health — 2 sessions on the link between living soil and our own health.
If the link between soil and the body interests you, it runs through holistic health as well, and the way I choose what a session becomes is set out in the approach.
The place itself
The greenhouse was renovated recently, and cloth sails were strung across the ceiling so they move in the wind. It sounds like a technical detail, but it changes the feel entirely — the light softens, the heat breaks, and the space becomes somewhere you can happily spend hours.
It is also one of the things that drew me to it. Not an industrial greenhouse — a space somebody has cared for.
For dates and registration, contact Dr. Yael Almog Stein directly. I am also glad to answer questions through my contact page.
Who it suits
Anyone who wants to grow their own food and does not know where to start. Anyone looking for work that returns them to the ground and to their hands. Anyone drawn to the philosophical side of farming and not only the technical. And anyone who simply wants to spend time outdoors among people asking similar questions.
No agricultural experience is needed. Many participants begin with a balcony or a small garden.
Biodynamic agriculture is an agricultural approach grounded in anthroposophical philosophy. The ideas presented here — including the relationship between cosmic qualities and growth, and treating soil as an entity — belong to that tradition and are not presented as established scientific fact. Courses and gatherings are educational and experiential, and do not constitute medical or nutritional advice.
Where to go from here
Begin where you are.
Book a session, or send a message and we’ll find the right starting point together.