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Gardening at the Dragon's Gate: At Work in the Wild and Cultivated World
Contributor(s): Johnson, Wendy (Author)

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ISBN: 0553378031     ISBN-13: 9780553378030
Publisher: Bantam
OUR PRICE: $21.25  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: February 2008
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Annotation: Johnson and Te Salle deliver a meditative, beautifully illustrated yet profoundly practical book that takes readers deep into the natural world and into a new understanding of the art of gardening. Illustrations.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Gardening | Essays & Narratives
- Philosophy | Buddhist
Dewey: 635
LCCN: 2007038981
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 7.4" W x 9" L (1.90 lbs) 447 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Booklist 01/01/2008 pg. 30
 
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Publisher Description:
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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