With the 2025 edition of the calendar, my relationship with this work has come to an end. I first started working with the calendar in 2008, starting a business - Growing Biodynamics - to take on the production, marketing and distribution of the publication for Camphill Village Kimberton Hills. The primary distribution venue for the calendar over the years has been this website, with the number of calendars sold growing from just under 3,000 copies to as many as 8,000 copies per year. During the time I worked with her, Sherry Wildfeuer, the founding editor of the calendar, collected and edited the articles, and drew the charts on the templates I developed and supplied to her. I would then take her Word files and run the production and distribution end of things, developing the design, laying out the calendar, paying for the artwork and printing, running the website, and selling and shipping to customers, paying royalties of $5 to Camphill for each copy sold.
Unfortunately, I am no longer able to supply my clients with the calendar. Sherry decided a couple of years ago to retire from editing the calendar, and passed the work onto a new publisher. In conversation, I indicated that I hoped to continue to sell to the customers I have worked with over the past 16 years. I gave the new publisher, Spikenard Farm, my design files and chart templates, with what I thought was an understanding that I would be able to purchase calendars in quantity at a discounted rate. Unfortunately, this has not worked out, so regrettably I have decided that am not able to fill orders and will need to shut down sales of new calendars on the website.
Thanks again to all who have supported this work over the past years - I've really enjoyed the opportunity to work with you, whether through the website or on annual phone calls. Best of luck in the upcoming season and with all of your gardening endeavors.
Bruce Bumbarger