Biodynamic agriculture was inaugurated in 1924 by Austrian scientist Rudolf Steiner.
Beginning in 1926, American farmers and gardeners joined the effort to test and promulgate Steiner's agricultural ideas.
[2] By 1938 there were 39 Americans who had joined this international effort, with some reading Steiner's work in the English translation and others in the German original.
The Association is a non-profit, membership organization and is open to the public.
It has an educational focus and conducts conferences, workshops and seminars; publishes books and a quarterly journal, Biodynamics; and supports regional, grass-roots membership groups.