Alan Chadwick
Alan Chadwick
Alan Chadwick, English master gardener, was a leading innovator of organic farming techniques and influential educator in the field of biodynamic/French intensive gardening. He was a student of Rudolf Steiner and is often cited as inspirational to the development of the "California Cuisine" movement. The Chadwick restaurant in Beverly Hills was named after him. His grave is marked by a stupa at the Green Gulch Farm Zen Center in California. Chadwick is the subject of a 2013 retrospective by a...
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There is one rule in the garden that is above all others. You must give to nature more than you take. Obey it, and the earth will provide you in glorious abundance.
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The Gardener does not create the Garden. The Garden creates the Gardener.
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It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.
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We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.
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