News from the Goetheanum

20 October 2022
250,000 croissants per year
The Vital Speisehaus organic bakery has extended its premises to 750 square metres. What started as a small bakery catering for the company‘s own ...

14 October 2022
Five contributions on biodynamic agriculture
As part of the Agricultural (Online) Conference of the Goetheanum in February 2022, five of the lectures given there were recorded. These can now be ...

11 October 2022
Play Requires Truth
Communities need playful encounters – not as a luxury but for their inner health. In play, we open up and make ourselves vulnerable and accessible. ...

04 October 2022
Curved cucumbers also taste good
Around 1.3 billion tons of food are thrown away globally every year – a third of the entire annual food production. Each food item has a history and ...

28 September 2022
Listening without knowing what there is to ‘hear’
Practising meditation means learning more about oneself and perceiving the world in increasingly nuanced ways without a personal perceptual filter. ...

27 September 2022
Living Connections
The Living Connections colloquium took place at the Goetheanum from 8 to 11 September with 50 work group leaders and people with an interest in ...

27 September 2022
Towards a One-World Economy
43 colleagues of the Economics Conference from 14 countries reflected in fourteen one-hour online presentations on Rudolf Steiner’s Economics Course.

27 September 2022
Preparation 501 on grapevine
Horn silica (501) preparation makes vines more adaptable to environmental conditions – due to an increase in phenolic metabolites.

23 September 2022
From the Land of Mary to the Land of Sophia
Current discourses are informed by images, metaphors and myths. The contributions in the book ‘Die Ostsee-Mysterien’ explore the geological and ...

20 September 2022
Mikhail Gorbachev
On the Death of the Bridge Builder between East and West. A conversation with Gerald Häfner. The questions were asked by Wolfgang Held.

19 September 2022
A New Policy for Europe and the World
«We are all players aboard the Earth ship, and we must not allow it to be destroyed. There will be no second Noah’s Ark,» said Mikhail Gorbachev in ...

15 September 2022
Rudolf Steiner’s Family. II – The Parents
His father fought for his children and was a freethinker. His quiet mother feared throughout her life that her son was overexerting himself because ...