There Is a Garden in the Mind
A Memoir of Alan Chadwick and the Organic Movement in California
There Is a Garden in the Mind presents an engaging look at the work and life of pioneering organic gardener Alan Chadwick and his profound influence on the organic farming movement. In this wide-ranging and philosophical memoir, author Paul Lee recounts his first serendipitous meeting with Chadwick in Santa Cruz, California, in 1967, and their subsequent founding of the Chadwick Garden at UC Santa Cruz, the first organic and biointensive garden at a U.S. university. Today, there are few who would dispute the ecological and health benefits of organically produced food, and the student garden project founded by Chadwick and Lee has evolved into…
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- ISBN: 978-1-58394-577-3
- EAN: 9781583945773
- Produktnummer: 15733558
- Verlag: North Atlantic Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 248 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 7'379 KB
- Abbildungen: 12 B&W PHOTOS 25 COLOR PHOTOS
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PAUL LEE studied philosophy at St. Olaf College and received his divinity degree and PhD from Harvard. He has taught at Harvard, MIT, and UC Santa Cruz, where he founded the UCSC Chadwick Garden with Alan Chadwick in 1967. In 1985 he founded the organization that became Santa Cruz's Homeless Services Center. His works include a book on homelessness, The Quality of Mercy, and a play, A Lullaby for Wittgenstein. The author lives in Santa Cruz, CA.
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