Attention, devotion, and the art of cultivating life.

Tierra Viva is a Journal of biodynamic agriculture, culture, and nature, and a meeting place for people who wish to renew the life of the earth. Its essays, photographs, recordings, and gatherings belong to a wider biodynamic impulse: to bring attention, devotion, and art into our work with soil, plants, animals, and one another.

We begin with the things before us: a handful of soil, a growing plant, the relationships that make a farm a living whole. Through patient observation, practical work and inner work can nourish each other. Making compost, sowing, tasting, drawing, and sharing a meal become ways of learning to participate more consciously in the life around us.

We want every region to be able to provide more of its own food from its own soil, seeds, skills, and resources. As people deepen this work where they live, the whole biodynamic movement grows stronger. Supporting these endeavors nourishes biodynamics from the periphery: gardens, farms, and communities, each rooted in its own place, contributing to the renewal of the whole.