Subject: Re: Chadwick and Mulch was Permanent beds (was key line plow) Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 20:19:15 -0800 From: Lawrence F. London, Jr. To: Biodynamic Food and Farming Discussion Allan Balliett wrote: > For those who do not know who Alan Chadwick was, he taught what he > called French Intensive Biodynamic gardening at UC Santa Cruz and other > California sites and spent a little while in building a garden in > Woodstock, Virginia before his untimely death in 1980. He is consdiered > by many to be the father of spiritually sensitive organic farming and > gardening in the United States and was the direct teacher of many of > today's most influential organic gardeners. (Such as Alan York, former > president of the biodynamic association and Wendy Johnson, head gardener > of Green Gulch and author of the inspirational gardening column in > TRICYCLE magazine.) Chadwick claimed to have learned his gardening > directly from Rudolf Steiner. Although he used the preps in private, he > never spoke of them in public. While it is hard to imagine at this point > in time, the Science Department at UC Santa Cruz considered his presence > on campus as an affront to them and continually worked to have him > removed from campus. (Scientists. You know, the folks who like to call > factories 'plants' and plants 'factories.') > > The 3rd Biodynamic Food and Farming Conference at Claymont was called > 'Alan Chadwick: 25 years later' and pulled together many former students > of Chadwick's to reassess his influence upon them. A remarkable man, for > sure! A series of Alan Chadwick lectures that Allan transcribed are online at: http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/orgfarm/permaculture/Alan.Chadwick/