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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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