Bruce's Journal - Part 5

Mark McAlister who joined us last summer along with Tina Sherman has now left to attend the Rudolf Steiner Institute in Spring Valley. He has been a great help. William Snider who stayed on for the better part of our first year is now in Ottawa working with the Outdoor Learning Centre. They are having their financial troubles too.
In addition to the increased work load at Living Seed, last month I was appointed chairman of the Michael [Toronto Anthroposophical Members] Group and, in organizing a B-D conference here at the [Toronto] Waldorf School two weeks ago, I was asked to become its chairman (a job I accepted with great reluctance.) [Curiously, this was a very short-lived term of office. Michael Schuster, Mr Bio-Dynamics in the Toronto area, refused to let me have a copy of the members roster. He kept sending out the most embarrassing literature, complete with spelling, grammatical and factual errors under the name of the Bio-dynamic Farming and Gardening Association of Southern Ontario. He just couldn't let go of the reins he had held so tightly for so many years. However...] we had a very successful conference, with John & Helen Philbrick, June 15-18, marking the 50th anniversary of Steiner's Koberwitz course on agriculture. [If I recall correctly, over 60 people attended.]
But getting back to a different of cultivation, the timing for the move of the Living Seed seems to be right:
1) increased rent coming up
2) George Wilson leaving for Europe for four months
3) Mark going to Spring Valley, followed by indefinite Oregon tour
4) Tina applying for a position at Camphill in NY or Penna.
5) Jerry Bain leaving soon for Waterloo University

Interestingly enough, it was Living Seed and Goldberry's that Gale Garnett praised most in her column [about Toronto health-food shops] in last night's Star. As to the destiny of these two impulses and my rôle in them I have as yet no idea. Who knows? Perhaps two years ago in planting the Living Seed we may soon reap the harvest of Gold berries.