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Monday, May 12, 2008 --- 68 days ago http://www.blogher.com/dharma-dirt-nyt-highlights-organic-gardener-zen-master-we
| In her Where Organic Gardening and Meditation Meet, Alameda Garden's Claire Splan point to this NYT Article, Dharma in the Dirt , by Patricia Lee Brown. The article profiles Wendy Johnson who is part of the Green Gulch Farm Zen Center in Northern California.
Ms. Johnson is one of the originators of organic gardening in the US, and a Zen Master who lived at Green Gulch for 25 years. From the NYTimes piece:
Long before Michael Pollan and Barbara Kingsolver wrote best-selling books about eating foods grown locally, Ms. Johnson, with a long-necked English watering can perpetually in hand, was cultivating an awareness of how lettuce grown au naturel can also feed the soul.
Again from the article:
For Ms. Johnson, who occasionally waters the Buddha statue in her greenhouse to, as she says, “bring him to life a little bit,” gardening is about far more than Gravenstein apple trees or David Austin heirloom roses. It is to literally know “the heart and mind of your place,” and in so doing, to know your own heart and mind as well. “I am often most alert and settled in the garden when I am working hard, hip deep in a succulent snarl of spring weeds,” she writes. “My mind and body drop away then, far below wild radish and bull thistle, and I live in the rhythmic pulse of the long green throat of my work.”
Gardening at the Dragon's Gate is the new book by Ms. Johnson. From the publisher's notes;
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