Henning Sehmsdorf

Henning Sehmsdorf completed a three-year apprenticeship and graduated from business school in Germany before emigrating to the United States at age nineteen. He took a degree in philosophy of science at the University of Rochester, NY, studied for a year at the Frankfurt Schoolof Critical Theory before taking a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. Offered a position at the University of Washington in 1967, he found land on Lopez Island, where he and his wife Elizabeth Simpson (Ph.D, University...See more

Henning Sehmsdorf completed a three-year apprenticeship and graduated from business school in Germany before emigrating to the United States at age nineteen. He took a degree in philosophy of science at the University of Rochester, NY, studied for a year at the Frankfurt Schoolof Critical Theory before taking a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. Offered a position at the University of Washington in 1967, he found land on Lopez Island, where he and his wife Elizabeth Simpson (Ph.D, University of Washington), developed a biodynamic demonstration farm, a farm-to-school program for local students, and educational programs for interns, apprentices, and the public. The essays in the volume describe the practices and applied research on the farm, nearly half of them written by interns and apprentices, and by university colleagues. See less