Wendy Johnson (1) (1943–)
Autor von Gardening at the Dragon's Gate: At Work in the Wild and Cultivated World
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- Geburtstag
- 1943
- Geschlecht
- female
- Wohnorte
- Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, California, USA
Green Gulch Farm, California, USA
Muir Beach, California, USA - Berufe
- farmer
meditation teacher
Dharma teacher - Organisationen
- Green Gulch Farm, California
Organic Farm and Garden Program, Green Gulch Farm (co-founder)
Edible Schoolyard Program, Chez Panisse Foundation
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Wonderfully written book. Loved it!
Lovely - as much a memoir and philosophizing done well, as cookbook and garden reverie. The author has spent more than 30 years gardening and meditating at the Green Gulch Farm Zen Center near San Francisco (on the way to Muir Woods and Stinson Beach!) in Marin.
Beautifully written book about a beautiful place. I never realized how perfectly the act of gardening meshes with the spiritual life.
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- 4.4
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The book is a slow entry (and it seems that many other Goodreads reviewers agree). The author is a devoted Zen practitioner and begins her story with a good bit of memoir and illumination of the Zen way. Even for somebody intrigued with Zen, this was difficult to absorb, written leisurely and ethereal as it is.
However, by the hundredth page or thereabouts, when the author begins really to blend Zen and gardening, I fell in love with the book and broke out sticky tabs to begin to mark a dozen pieces that I want to return to over and over again. The sections on soil and on composting were highlights for me.
A small nit from my perspective: The author is clearly not a big fan of small kids in her gardens, and while I understand why, i quickly tired of the attitude whenever the subject arose.
Yet this is a beautiful book about life and land, a good illustration of Zen, and a wonderful exploration of organic gardening.… (mehr)