Gardening at the Dragon's Gate: At Work in the Wild and Cultivated World

Gardening at the Dragon's Gate: At Work in the Wild and Cultivated World
by Wendy Johnson

Gardening at the Dragon's Gate: At Work in the Wild and Cultivated World
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Author: Wendy Johnson
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-02-26
ISBN: 0553378031
Number of pages: 464
Publisher: Bantam
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Book Review: inspiring!
Summary: 5 Stars

beautifully written, informative and inspiring. can't wait to visit the green gulch garden in marin this summer!
a must read for gardeners.

Summary of Gardening at the Dragon's Gate: At Work in the Wild and Cultivated World

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.

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