Gardening philosphy – Green Tiger Garden

On gardening and patience

Patience is one of the greatest lessons working with plants and gardening has had to offer me. It is a lesson I don’t particularly enjoy. I am, by anyone’s standard, not a patient man (just ask my poor wife!).It’s not that I am in need of instant gratification for everything I do in the garden (come on you tomatoes grow some damn fruit, I planted you last week for freakin sakes, what’s the hold-up?!).Nor am I ignorant to the wisdom of great thinkers and prophets: “All things come to one of patience”.It’s just something about linear time that bugs me. Read more

Gardening at the Dragon’s Gate: At Work in the Wild and Cultivated World

June 4, 2020

Wendy Johnson is a Zen Buddhist meditation teacher and pioneer, leader and head gardener for San Francisco’s Green Gulch Farm Center (located in Marin County, northern California), gardens that grew out of fields that “curve like an enormous green dragon between the hills and the ocean”. In this delightful book she shares her experiences and profound knowledge in a manner that leaves one, in the words of Joanna Macy; “…shaken into a fuller, gladder life.” A distillation of her life and work, “Fundamental work that permeates your entire life. It demands your energy and heart, and it gives you back

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