About SBFI

The Biodynamic Research Institute was founded in 1986. Up until then it was part of "the Nordic Research Circle for Biodynamic Agriculture". Since the autumn of 1997 the Institute has been part of the Rudolf Steiner University College. The research activities at the Institute are a continuation of the work that began in the early 1950s.

 

The biodynamic farm under nordic conditions is the fundamental basis for activities. The centre of all activity is the biologically self-supporting farm, with its fields, crops, animals and human beings as bearers of a future sustainable society. Any future sustainable, recycling based, society must be in co-operation with life-creating agriculture, which in turn is based on cyclic nutrient flows, biological diversity, fertile soil and flowing energy from the sun. The farm itself, with its fields, crop, animals and human beings, is the starting point for studies of food quality, evaluated with regard to its nutritional value as well as its promotion of health for the environment, the landscape and society as a whole. In order to find solutions for the problems of our time and to transfer them into practical applications, a more profound insight and knowledge is needed about the physical and chemical issues, as well as fundamentally about life itself, which we meet in plants, animals and human beings.

 

The project is financed by grants from research councils, institutions and individuals. A fee of 300 Swedish Kroner (SEK) a year provides with on-going information and a yearly report (mostly in Swedish).