Reverence, obedience and the invisible in the garden : talks on the biodynamic French intensive system / by Alan Chadwick ; edited by Stephen J. Crimi ; introduction by Rodney Blackhirst.

"Gardening, for Chadwick, is first and foremost an arena for transformations. Transformation is the dream and the duty of the alchemist. The alchemist is servant of the coming dawn who labors to hasten the day when man ends his sojourn of folly and returns to Paradise renewed. It is a noble theoria...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chadwick, Alan, 1909-1980
Language:English
Published: Asheville, NC : Logosophia, LLC, [2013], ©2013.
Subjects:
Gardening > Philosophy.
Horticulture.
Organic gardening.
Physical Description:ii, 270 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Introduction / Dr. Rodney Blackhirst
  • The Proscenium arch / Stephen Crimi
  • Nature's medicine chest
  • Everything is governed by an invisible law
  • Bloom and area of discontinuity
  • Intellect, reason and idée
  • Seed: the utmost idée/the least metamorphosis
  • Composting
  • Energies and elements
  • The king of the golden river
  • Ley crops
  • Irrigation
  • Raised beds
  • Fertility/merchant and seer
  • Art
  • The garden as the mirror of man
  • History of herbs
  • Energy, color, herbs.