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Germany leads the world in certified biodynamic hectares, accounting for 34% of global certified biodynamic hectares). Australia is second in the world in certified biodynamic hectares, accounting for 20% of global certified biodynamic hectares (Paull & Hennig, 2020). Australia was an early adopter of biodynamics. Biodynamics began with a course of eight lectures by Rudolf Steiner in 1924 at Koberwitz, a village on the outskirts of Breslau, Germany. The course was presented in German, and more than half of the ‘Koberwitzers’ were from Germany. The venue of the Agriculture Course survived Adolf Hitler’s policy of ‘Fortress Breslau’ and the subsequent forfeiture of the region to the renascent Poland. The village is now Kobierzyce, on the outskirts of Wrocław, Poland.

The AIF stretcher bearer and Italian immigrant, Ernesto Genoni, pioneered biodynamics in Australia. He joined Rudolf Steiner's Experimental Circle in 1928, the first Australian to join. Ernesto Genoni spent 1924 at the headquarters of Anthroposophy in Dornach, Switzerland, attending Rudolf Steiner's First Class, learning German in the process, and painting in the Anthroposophic style. Ernesto established the first biodynamic farm in Victoria, at Dalmore . With his partner, Ileen Macpherson, Ernesto Genoni operated Australia's original Demeter Farm at Dandenong, Victoria, for two decades