There is a Garden in the Mind shines a spotlight on the founding father of the American organic movement, Alan Chadwick, for his groundbreaking approaches to gardening, which have shaped the burgeoning locavore and sustainable agriculture movements.
In this all-encompassing and philosophical memoir, Paul Lee recounts his serendipitous meeting with Chadwick in Santa Cruz, in 1967, and their subsequent founding of the Chadwick Garden at UC Santa Cruz, the first organic and bio-intensive garden at a U.S. university. Lee describes the evolving awareness of the importance of organic food production and the role of industrial agriculture in our country’s national health crisis. His account shows how this seminal garden project continues to bear fruit as a world-renowned research center that helps third-world farmers obtain high yields using organic gardening.
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