Gardening at the Dragon's Gate by Wendy Johnson

Gardening at the Dragon's Gate by Wendy Johnson

Gardening at the Dragon's Gate is fundamental work that permeates your entire life. It demands your energy and heart, and it gives you back great treasures as well, like a fortified sense of humor, an appreciation for paradox, and a huge harvest of Dinosaur kale and tiny red potatoes.

For more than thirty years, Wendy Johnson has been meditating and gardening at the Green Gulch Farm Zen Center in northern California, where the fields curve like an enormous green dragon between the hills and the ocean. Renowned for its pioneering role in California's food revolution, Green Gulch provides choice produce to farmers' markets and to San Francisco's Greens restaurant. Now Johnson has distilled her lifetime of experience into this extraordinary celebration of inner and outer growth, showing how the garden cultivates the gardener even as she digs beds, heaps up compost, plants flowers and fruit trees, and harvests bushels of organic vegetables.

Johnson is a hands-on, on-her-knees gardener, and she shares with the reader a wealth of practical knowledge and fascinating garden lore. But she is also a lover of the untamed and weedy, and she evokes through her exquisite prose an abiding appreciation for the earth--both cultivated and forever wild--in a book sure to earn a place in the great tradition of American nature writing.

Wendy Johnson, one of the founders of Green Gulch Farm Zen Center's organic Farm and Garden Program, presently resides with her family in Muir Beach, Marin County. She is an adviser to the Chez Panisse Foundation's Edible Schoolyard program and has helped to build numerous garden programs in public schools and local communities throughout the Bay Area. She is a Buddhist meditation teacher who is heavily engaged in environmental work nationally. For almost ten years, her piece, On Gardening, has run in Tricycle The Buddhist Review. This is her debut novel.

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ISBN 13	9780553378030
ISBN 10	0553378031
Title	Gardening at the Dragon's Gate
Author	Wendy Johnson
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2008-02-26
Number of pages	464
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