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

Name: Gardening at the Dragon's Gate At Work in the Wild and Cultivated World
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ISBN: 9780553378030

ISBN-10: 0553378031

ISBN-13: 9780553378030

Edition: 2008

Authors: Wendy Johnson, Davis Te Selle

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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…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/26/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.958
Language: English



Introduction: Into the Tangle



Valley of the Ancestors


The Voice of the Watershed


Getting Down to Bedrock


A Forest Thicket


Gardening for Five Hundred Years


Root Teacher



The Garden Makes the Gardener


The Blue in Beets


North Star Plants


The Three Sisters


Leave the Flowers to the Wind


The Threshold Oak



The Living Soil


The Ground of Beginner's Mind


True Grit


The Flow of Fertile Soil


The Web of Life


Groundwork



Life into Death into Life


Nature's Round


The Breakdown Ball


Arranging Garbage


Spreading the Wealth



Tending the Garden


Bare Noting


Water So the Soil Can Dry Out


Flowers Fall, Weeds Thrive


Cutting Through


No Trace



Gardening with All Beings


Pest or Guest?


Stiff-Spined Pests


Scarab Beetles and Assassin Bugs


Medicine and Disease Subdue Each Other


The Dung and Drool Garden



Returning to Origin


Inward Seeds of Fire


Purity and the Horsetail Fern


Propagating Mystery


Roots and Shoots of Eden


Sun Face Buddha, Moon Face Buddha


Gift-Bestowing Hands



Beauty Counts


Divinely Superfluous Beauty


Plotting Paradise


The Wind of the Family House


Tales of Eden



Harvesting Fields of Greens


No Anonymous Food


The Mamadella's Garden


Keep the Links Alive


Dragon Greens


Resources


Permissions


Acknowledgments


Index


About the Author and Illustrator


About San Francisco Zen Center