I had the pleasure of sitting with a group of gardeners for a couple of hours yesterday. My friend, Patti, invited us to her Snoqualmie Summer Winds Farm, to listen to Gary Kline speak about how to grow nutrient dense food with soil mineralization.
As a massage therapist with soft manicured hands – I bet I was the only “non-gardener” in the group. Yet since we moved to the Snoqualmie Valley I’ve been hearing the call from some very different voices.
We’re lucky enough to buy a substantial part of our food from local farms. I can’t describe the amazing taste – the food seems to have a quality of aliveness – an energy or prana as we say in yoga speak. A few weeks ago I picked up Wendy Johnson’s “Gardening at the Dragon’s Gate.” I’ve been savoring a few pages every day. As long time master gardener at the Green Gulch Zen Center, she writes about gardening as zen and zen as gardening. It took her ten years to write her book out by hand. You can tell. Her prose rises up from the pages like plants growing from fertile soil.
