Reverence, obedience and the invisible in the garden
Subtitle: talks on the biodynamic French intensive system
By: by Alan Chadwick ; edited by Stephen J. Crimi ; introduction by Rodney Blackhirst
Publisher: Logosophia, Llc
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Asheville, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780981575735
Subjects: Gardening; Horticulture; Organic gardening; Biodynamic agriculture
Description: "Gardening, for Chadwick, is first and foremost an arena for transformations. Transformation is the dream and the duty of the alchemist. The alchemist is servant of the coming dawn who labors to hasten the day when man ends his sojourn of folly and returns to Paradise renewed. It is a noble theoria that Chadwick has and it is perfectly wed to his extraordinary command of horticultural technique. The horticulture of Alan Chadwick speaks for itself. It is an eminently rational, logical, clean system of high yielding optimum organic gardening of unsurpassed simplicity and productivity. It is also an expression of a sublime vision coming out of a deep and ancient tradition of which this man of the soil was an unlikely representative."-- From the Introduction by Dr. Rodney Blackhirst.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Introduction / Dr. Rodney Blackhirst; title: The Proscenium arch / Stephen Crimi; title: Nature's medicine chest; title: Everything is governed by an invisible law; title: Bloom and area of discontinuity; title: Intellect, reason and idée; title: Seed: the utmost idée/the least metamorphosis; title: Composting; title: Energies and elements; title: The king of the golden river; title: Ley crops; title: Irrigation; title: Raised beds; title: Fertility/merchant and seer; title: Art; title: The garden as the mirror of man; title: History of herbs; title: Energy, color, herbs.