[Chicago] Celebrating the Start of the 61st Street Farmers Market

[Carlos Encalada]

Experimental Station and the Seminary Coop Bookstore present

*Gardening at the Dragons' Gate: An Evening with Wendy Johnson*

Gardening at the Dragon's Gate is fundamental work that permeates your
entire life. It demands your energy and heart, and it gives you back great
treasures as well, like a fortified sense of humor, an appreciation for
paradox, and a huge harvest of Dinosaur kale and tiny red potatoes.  For
more than thirty years, Wendy Johnson has been meditating and gardening at
the Green Gulch Farm Zen Center in northern California, where the fields
curve like an enormous green dragon between the hills and the ocean.
Renowned for its pioneering role in California's food revolution, Green
Gulch provides choice produce to farmers' markets and to San Francisco's
Greens restaurant. Now Johnson has distilled her lifetime of experience into
this extraordinary celebration of inner and outer growth, showing how the
garden cultivates the gardener even as she digs beds, heaps up compost,
plants flowers and fruit trees, and harvests bushels of organic vegetables.
Johnson is a hands-on, on-her-knees gardener, and she shares with the reader
a wealth of practical knowledge and fascinating garden lore. But she is also
a lover of the untamed and weedy, and she evokes through her exquisite prose
an abiding appreciation for the earth—both cultivated and forever wild—in a
book sure to earn a place in the great tradition of American nature writing.

•    "Wendy Johnson shows how the garden and the shared table reconnect us
in a profound and visceral way to the earth. A beautiful book and an
invaluable resource." —Alice Waters, founder, Chez Panisse
•     "A glorious book . . . deep philosophy with dirt beneath its
fingernails."
—Bill McKibben, author of  The End of Nature
•    "Truly magnificent, a treasure—one of those rare books that you hope,
without knowing, will appear in your life. It will keep you in good company
for years and years." —Deborah Madison, author of Vegetarian Cooking for
Everyone

*Time: Friday, May 16, 2008 7:00 p.m.
Location: Experimental Station, 6100 S. Blackstone Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637

61st Street Farmers Market opening: May 17, 9:00–2:00, 61st and Blackstone
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