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Welcome to the Saugeen River School for Sacred Agriculture page. My name is Cory Eichman and I’ve managed the Saugeen River CSA farm since 1997. You can explore the other pages of this website to learn more about the farm’s history and current happenings. This page outlines the education side of the farm’s activities. You can subscribe to email notifications to receive the farm’s posts, about the school and csa.
Training apprentices was an essential part of this farm’s work for 20 years though I stopped accepting apprentices in 2018. Managing primarily a vegetable operation in a wintery climate, also led to supplementing the outer farm education with teaching biodynamic and organic theory through workshops at conferences during the slower season. In 2005, after participating in an adult education training, I began developing more extensive courses. Over the years I’ve conducted courses through the Rudolf Steiner Centre in Toronto, The Ontario Biodynamic Society, the Biodynamic Association, the Council of Anthroposophical Organizations, the Anthroposophical Society, and the Camphill Academy.
As with these organizations, I intend the School for Sacred Agriculture to offer on-line as well as in person courses and workshops here at the farm.
This coming season I will be conducting all the workshops and courses, however, in the future I hope to have other teachers and practitioners contributing events.
Contact me for more detailed information about each event.

Sacred Agriculture
Sacred agriculture is as old as the first seeds sprinkled on soil with imagination, as old as the first animals led to greener pastures. I don’t believe a sacred agriculture belongs to any one spiritual tradition, culture, or people. I see it, if anything, as an expression of our collective experience working with the Earth to provide food, fiber, medicine, among other things, for ourselves and our community (however that is defined). For me, what makes agriculture sacred is the striving to include the whole in our farming and gardening practices. This is an ongoing striving, as we, each individually, and collectively, grow into what the “whole” means: whether that is the immediate or global ecology, our community or broader economic and social justice issues, the spirit of place, the evolution of nature and humanity, or the Earth as a being within the cosmos. Our understanding of the whole can always grow. Perhaps the whole is how all of those play into each other.
Agriculture is a place where the sacred and the practical can meet. What seems vitally important these days is to recognize that economic relationships can be sacred relationships as well. We’ll try to explore and share what the ‘whole’ can be.
Much of my work has been rooted in the spiritual science of Rudolf Steiner, the founder of Biodynamic agriculture. This has very much informed my relationship to the sacred in agriculture. However, spiritual science, I also believe, does not belong to any particular person or spiritual tradition. This is a shared, collective inquiry into the relationship between the spiritual and physical aspects of reality. We can always learn and deepen our understanding when we listen to and share perspectives with each other.
Always feel free to reach out to me with any questions or thoughts:
In gratitude,
Cory Eichman
saugeenrivercsa@gmail.com
519 369 3567, cell 519 369 8116

Payments:
In Canada you can send e-transfers to saugeenrivercsa@gmail.com
From the US I will have my PayPal account set up shortly.