Ehrenfried Pfeiffer’s asked Rudolf Steiner why people today appear unable to develop and act according to all they learn and seem to know. Steiner replied: “This is a problem of nutrition.”

In Waldorf schools worldwide, there is a conscious effort to keep school snacks and meals as natural as possible. Most schools have a garden and encourage the growing of vegetable and the grinding of grain. Salads, fruits, nuts and simple soups are the staple of most schools. Rudolf Steiner gave many indications regarding the plant and animal kingdoms and proper nutrition for adults and children…

For further reading, we suggest the following books:

• Foodwise: Understanding What We Eat and How It Affects Us : The Story of Human Nutrition by Wendy Cook
• The Biodynamic Food & Cookbook: Real Nutrition That Doesn’t Cost the Earth by Wendy Cook
• Nutrition by Rudolf Hauscka
• Problems of Nutrition by Rudolf Steiner
• Nutrition: Food, Health, and Spiritual Development by Rudolf Steiner
• When a Child Is Born by Wilhelm zur Linden
• Instinctive Eating: The Lost Knowledge of Optimum Nutrition A charming, unique confession of one mans radical transformation through eating exclusively whole raw foods. Zephyr delves boldly into the organismic core of our relationship with food, unearthing a diet that is profoundly pleasurable, truly healthy, and utterly ecological. He completes his vision by integrating instinctive eating with permaculture and tribal community. Instructive, inspirational, idealistic, yet clearly practical.

“One thing must be thoroughly and fully recognized for this age in a child’s life: the physical body creates its own scale of measurement for what is beneficial to it. It does this by properly developing craving and desire. Generally speaking, we may say that the healthy physical body desires what is good for it. In the growing human being, so long that it is the physical body that is important, we should pay the closest attention to what healthy, craving desire and delight require. Pleasure and delight are the forces that most properly enliven and call forth the organs’ physical forms.

In this manner it is all too easy to do harm by failing to bring children into the proper physical relationship with their environment. This may happen especially in regard to their instincts for food. Children may be overfed with things that make them lose completely their healthy instinct for food, whereas by giving them the proper nourishment, the instinct can be preserved so that they always want what is wholesome for them under the circumstances.” ~Rudolf Steiner

Please DO eat the flowers:
Do you know that many types of flowers are not only edible but delicious too!

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