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Wendy will be speaking about her experiences in the garden. She was one of the founders of the organic Farm and Garden Program at Green Gulch Farm Zen Center in Marin County, where she lived with her family from 1975 to 2000. Wendy has been teaching gardening and environmental education since the early 1980s, helping to establish many garden programs in public schools, local communities, and hospice centers throughout the Bay Area. In 2000 Wendy and her husband, Peter Rudnick, received the annual Sustainable Agriculture Award from the National Ecological Farming Association. Since 1995 she has written a quarterly column, “On Gardening,” for Tricycle, The Buddhist Review. She was honored in The Best Science and Nature Writing 2000, published by Houghton Mifflin. She is a mentor and advisor to the Edible Schoolyard program of the Chez Panisse Foundation, a project which she has been involved with since its inception in 1995. This is her first book, copies will be available at the center and there will be time set aside for book signing. Please join us in welcoming Wendy to the Northeast Kingdom!

Praise for Gardening at the Dragon’s Gate

“A beautiful book and an invaluable resource.”
—Alice Waters, founder, Chez Panisse

“A consummate guide to both the natural world and the inner journey.”
—Shambhala Sun

“Viewed through the prism of an elemental understanding of the unbridled life that exists in every garden, Johnson’s wisdom is conveyed with a lyrical, poetic, yet pragmatic sensibility that both calms the mind and excites the imagination.”
—Booklist

“Wendy Johnson follows in the footsteps of Thoreau . . . Her book is for everyone who wants to live a rich, deep life.”
—Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart

“A glorious book . . . deep philosophy with dirt beneath its fingernails.”
—Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy

“This book is a long memory of a relationship with Earth. I am in utter awe of the gusto with which Johnson tells her story. Read one paragraph and you’ll long to hold dirt in your hand.”
—Natalie Goldberg, author of Writing Down the Bones and Wild Mind