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Gardening at the Dragon's Gate: At Work in the Wild and Cultivated World | 
| Author: Wendy Johnson
Publisher: Bantam
Category: Book
List Price: $25.00
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 4627
Media: Paperback
Pages: 464
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.3 x 1.5
ISBN: 0553378031
Dewey Decimal Number: 635
EAN: 9780553378030
ASIN: 0553378031
Publication Date: February 26, 2008
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Product 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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Sometimes Language Counts -- especially when it sings May 23, 2008
Madelyn Blair (Jefferson, MD USA)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is more than a book about gardening. It is almost like reading poetry. For those of us who want to enjoy the language as much as the content, this books is most satisfying.
Inspiration & Wisdom April 4, 2008
Dale Kent
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
This beautifully written book is full of wisdom and good information. It is an inspiring work that has had me smiling as I read and looking forward to getting my hands dirty in the garden.
Simply Amazing! She's the Real Thing April 3, 2008
lion mountain (San Francisco)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This book is simply amazing, I could not wait for next time I could get into bed with it and a cup of tea and follow along with Wendy Johnson on her rich path of discovery through the garden and through life as a Zen person. The writing has a few too many words at times, but the fact that this was simultaneously a how-to book on gardening and a spiritual memoir full of deep Zen teachings makes it something very special. Wendy Johnson shows herself to be the real deal here, willing to take chances with her life and willing to get her hands dirty for the benefit of others and for the benefit of the planet.
Great read April 1, 2008
J. Gessler (Crossville, TN)
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
Just a great book I felt I was walking in the garden with her. You just have to read this one.
Rich earth March 21, 2008
Barbara Turner (Lynden, WA USA)
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
This book springs from rich earth. It digs into an era through the gardening and Buddhist practice of Wendy Johnson. It's so detailed and beautifully blended that, after a session of reading, I would marvel at the mere undertaking of writing this part-gardening, part-spiritual-journey and part-history of the times memoir. A real joy to be relished slowly.
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