Garden Song
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The late Alan Chadwick, actor, master gardener, and inventor of the 'Biodynamic French Intensive Method' spent 50 years in the garden -- digging, planting and watching.
Chadwick's method of gardening in raised beds produces an amazing amount of food in very little space, and uses few resources. Over 50 countries are developing garden projects based on his technique.
But to Chadwick there is more to gardening than growing food. It can nourish your soul as well.
A beautiful portrait of a dynamic human being, it was photographed at Chadwick's gardens in Virginia, Boulder Creek and Bolinas, California. It also features John Jeavons and Dr. Paul Lee, who discuss Chadwick's vitally important contribution to small-scale agriculture in a hungry world.
'The eloquence of his thought and diction make Chadwick an electrifying proponent of life on a human scale, of moral vision, and personal dignity. An intriguing program for public and college library audiences.' Booklist
'Artistic, yet informative -- important ideas are conveyed simply and clearly. Captures the spirit and intensity of a very unique man. Technical quality good to very good.' EFLA Evaluations
'He evidently was one of those rare individuals whose vision is clearer, more perceptive than most. Students talk about what a privilege it was to work with and for him: the interviews make quite clear why this was. The man is inspiring.' John Voorhees, Television Critic, The Seattle Times
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Main credits
De Graaf, John (film producer)
De Graaf, John (screenwriter)
Mulligan, Jim (film producer)
Mulligan, Jim (screenwriter)
Mulligan, Jim (videographer)
Brenna, Pat (narrator)
Other credits
Videographer, Jim Mulligan; editor, Kathy Soulliere.
Distributor subjects
Agriculture; Biography; Environment; Environmental Ethics; Food And Nutrition; Gardening; Sustainable Agriculture; World HungerKeywords
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The grey-eyed morn smiles on
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the frowning dite checking the
eastern clouds with streaks of
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light Now here the Sun advance his burning
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I the day and night Dang due to dry.
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I must stop fill this cage of ours with
baleful we and precious jewels and
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flung in
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the cool damp Valley of
the Shenandoah River
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lies and enchanting garden
smells and sounds fill the air.
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With fragrance and freshness seldom found
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anymore The beauty and bounty
of this place or the work
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of a master gardener Alan Chadwick.
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He has spent 50 years with his hands
and heart in the soil and out of
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that experience has created a new and
beautiful way to grow food system
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so productive it has attracted
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worldwide attention as a way to help
ease food problems in lead agriculture
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in a new direction we can
create a garden a paradise.
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And we can create an express
way that tears from
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one town to another on which your
travel and don\'t know where you\'re
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gone Everybody carrying today from birth
to the last two years of security.
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Having traveled through the whole
countryside having seen none of it
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or every moment an exuberance of
discovery of beauty of life of a wonder
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Gardens are forever gardens or the creation
of God we as physical beings common
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gal I was struck struck down with
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nature flow from the word of birth from
the word Gail I was fortunate to be
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born in a family that had beautiful
surroundings beautiful gardens.
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I adored plants and had a comprehension
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And Alan Chadwick simple love affair with
nature has directed his entire life.
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He\'s wealthy English family
encouraged him to study in
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the great horticultural schools of Europe
but at the age of 20 he changed course
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is singular obsession with plants
was eclipsed by another love a love
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that began with the childhood experience
and there were all these people
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with all these lights and suddenly
it all went out into darkness and
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everything in the place was
dark and then there was music
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and started to sing and then gradually.
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There was a partition occurred parted And
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rose and there was some vague light
and something started to happen
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all in another world had the whole of
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that world proceeded for 2.5 hours
and carried me right out of
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this work and suddenly it all close
down and ended and all the lights
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came on and I was back in myself
again but it had happened I\'d gone.
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I\'d gone right out I found
another world idea into
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the theatre chair quickly
leading Shakespearian rules
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with a great repertory
companies of England.
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Working with George Bernard Shaw in
T.S Eliot but Chadwick was never
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comfortable in the world of theater I was
always laughed at hilariously in the theatre.
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Only at places like Stretford where when I
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went you know were expected to
play cricket to be hearty do
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know all theatrical supposed
to go to cocktail parties sit
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down in huge wallowing seeds
and either go off into
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miasma dreams or talk all
the time and I never
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went to any of that and I was
always very exuberant and
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wanted to live wanted to I never liked
to walk along the pavement I was
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asked to dance along the pavement and I
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don\'t like to always walk forwards I
like to walk back quits his match but
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the magnetic attraction of nature
With two strings which end
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with two easiest and after
20 years in the theater.
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He came back to the garden.
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With the delicate touch of
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an earnest parent cells cells that
when we are born on this earth.
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All of the fields and the
trees and the plants are like
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the canvas given to us to
paint on and now it is for
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the artists to create His
passionate creativity coupled with
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classic horticultural training
inspired him to develop
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a new gardening technique the
biodynamic French intensive method
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here in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia
Alan Chadwick has created another garden.
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But utopian community has brought
him here to develop their gardens
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and to teach his unique method
to young and eager apprentices
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And so to stars were ordered
to descend to earth to
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enlightened man and the one
star raised medallion.
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And said I represent the king not
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fishes and i stand for
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string and the other raised medallion.
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And said I represent the queen of
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crops and I represent Come full.
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Despite use a vigorous
labor with spade and fork
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Chadwick\'s failing health keeps him from work
in the garden a core group of apprentices.
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Follow his direction the master\'s student
relationship seems medieval the work has
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hired the hours long the discipline
intense Chadwick weaves drama.
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Music Mythology art in horticulture
into a colorful tapestry.
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A rare understanding of
man\'s relationship with
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nature but God and doesn\'t
constitute the supply of
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the kitchen or the parts of
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the Arabs Or the pleasant little walk
to go down and smell the flowers.
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It\'s the whole inner sense of man and that
the garden is his introduction if step that
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leads him to the vision of
the whole of nature and
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creation Chadwick\'s 50 years of
close observation in the garden.
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Has left him in on the power
and mysteries of nature.
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He has become acutely aware
of the conflict between
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the vital force of nature in
man\'s desire to dominate the ear
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The whole of nature and the plant
world is not only a giver of
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everything we have but it is
also an utter utter forgiven.
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It seems to excuse everything that man
does that is months stress we report
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tarmac all over the
ground and stop the rain
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and the revolution of escaped
into the soil and still the brac.
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The firm the fissile the toads to
will stay I must I\'ve got to obey.
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My one angelic duty is to
be a begun to my duty to
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my destiny and it pushes and it breaks
right through the whole pavement.
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It comes up during the war
And where we have drawn
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the cities and level them
at most deplorable mess.
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But even the human beings can\'t clear up
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all the rare plants are springing
up the botanists went to London.
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From the country to find the
wild flowers again after
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the war it\'s an incredible matter when
you look into it it makes you say.
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Surely we\'ve asked somewhere
be obedient and reverend to
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something Alan Chadwick brand his method
in Teaching to America in the late 60s.
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He came here to the University
of California at Santa Cruz.
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In turn the barren Rocky hillside.
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Into this abundant garden Pauli a philosophy
professor invited Chadwick to Santa Cruz.
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And helped him begin the garden was a
magnetic draw for students because of
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the feverish activity that
Alan manifested here that
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simply attracted attention
and secondly I only.
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Could formulate it as saying that Alan was
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uniquely appointed to replant
the vital role of existence.
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So we had it
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here we had such banquets here from
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the abundance of the things that were
grown here Food that you could not
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experience in terms of its
taste in any store that you
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might try to buy it from the life
that appeared on a slope with
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the humming birds and the
butterflies and birds that would
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always be around here Alan
had a kind of affinity for
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all life forms and birds would fly
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and land on his shoulder and could feed
them from his hands and so on and he
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had a kind of magic means of
expressing the principle of
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plenitude John Jevons was one of
many touched by the beauty of
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Chadwick\'s flowers But he was also struck
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by the productivity of the
Santa Cruz vegetable gardens.
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He had worked with the Agency for
International Development and was
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concerned about the shortage of
agricultural land in developing countries.
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He wanted to find a way to grow more food.
Unless land.
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About that time I ran across Alan
Chadwick and his project in Santa Cruz.
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And they found that it would be
possible to grow my food and income and
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even smaller scale and more
environmentally sound way than I
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was aware of Inspired by Chadwick\'s
work Jevons returned home to
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Palo Alto California and convinced
the local cooperation to
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donate four acres in the middle of an
industrial park for an experimental garden.
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He invited Chadwick to
look at the same there was
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nothing worse that you could have
gone to literally on this earth.
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He went to the middle is the harder
it really couldn\'t have been much
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worse and we stood on it and I said well it
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couldn\'t be worse so here you are
do it because here\'s going to be
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the executive will do
it here are the largest
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in the whole world is it doesn\'t
matter who comes up and
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says are but you had soil
you could say oh did we
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and so the answer is you Got nothing
and your favorite or beginning with
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a former systems analyst at
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Stanford University Jevons applies
his skills to monitor the input and
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the output of the garden and harvest
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each plant is weighed and the produce
of each bed carefully recorded.
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After nine years of testing Jevons
has found Chadwick\'s method
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produces four to six times the
US commercial average yield of
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grains fruits and vegetables
per unit area using
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1 eighth the water one-quarter
the added nitrogen fertilizer in
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only 1 100th the energy per pound
of food produced Somewhere
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between 19841986 will be producing
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almost as much food
nutrition and income per
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hour by hand as it\'s currently
done in commercial agriculture.
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I couldn\'t expect anyone to believe
that originally I wouldn\'t.
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But I\'m getting into my tenth year and I
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now see that it can be true
one thing to reflect on is
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that essentially all the projections that
we\'re talking about are based on yields and
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time factors that are already
happening somewhere else in
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the world or here on a reasonable scale.
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So it\'s merely just putting all the pieces
together in one system and making them
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work Chadwick\'s method is based
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on the French intensive technique which
was popular in France in the 1880s.
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The plants are grown in beds.
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The soil is prepared by a special
double digging technique
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the first foot is removed by spade and
the second foot is Lucinda by 4k.
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This improves drainage and allows
air into the soil the roots grow
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deep and dense in these beds in
important microbiotic life thrives.
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This deep digging makes the soil
richer and more productive each year.
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Double digging is hard work but especial tool
called a lu-bar saves time and effort in
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subsequent diggings And this will allow us to
prepare a bed and as little as 20 minutes.
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Rather than the two hours normally involve
it would allow you to dig up a tenth of
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an acre mini farm in 6.5 hours gardeners
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then fertilized the bed with compost
bone meal and other organic material.
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The result is a raised in slightly
rounded bed the seeds are
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seedlings are planted in a unique
hexagonal pattern instead of rows.
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When these closely spaced
plants are mature.
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Their leaves will cover the entire bed.
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Leaving no space unused Living leafy canopy
stifles weeds and holds precious water in
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the soil
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chemical pesticides
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and fertilizers are never
used in a Chadwick Garden.
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As a young man Chadwick was deeply
influenced by the biodynamic theories of
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Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner
standard condemned chemicals because they
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disrupt the natural balances and
delicate interrelationships within
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the garden Chadwick controls pests.
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Through companion planting and
attracting natural predators.
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He is also found that after a few
years the fertility of the soil
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and the vitality of the plants improved
and the pest problem diminishes.
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Here in this new garden however devastating
Japanese beetles must be removed by hand.
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But even they serve a purpose in the garden
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On a crisp September day in the Midwest
corn pickers and trucks harvest
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a field of sweetcorn for canning
they strip close to 140 tons of
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corn from these 20 acres in just a few
hours mechanical methods and the values of
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commercial production stand
in sharp contrast to
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Chadwick sensitivity to the
rhythms of nature We do not.
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Thank God anymore.
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We do not love the huge
beneficence that we\'re given.
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Throughout the of the whole
accommodation of our life of
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food for our life with our clothing
of everything we just say to hell.
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I don\'t believe in the four seasons in the
foreign archangels that God has given to
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give all the necessities of life in a cycle I
don\'t believe it because it\'s not visible.
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I only attend to believe science today in
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the laboratory which proves
to be visible matter.
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So I want my 10 thousand in the bank and to
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hell I don\'t care whether people are
fed or not that\'s not my business.
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I\'ve got to pay my income taxed
I\'ve gotta send my journey to
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school and I did $10 thousand and there
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it is I\'ve got it out of the field and
everyone in the world has the land.
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Technology. Water and
energy to produce food like
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this in other parts of the world
destructive agricultural practices.
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My assuming cities and expanding deserts
threaten long cultivated lands at the same time.
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Population. Especially in developing
countries Growing rapidly.
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By the year 2 thousand there will be 1 third
less agricultural land in the world to feed
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nearly twice as many people I think
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the awareness or consciousness
that there is a food crisis.
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May be only 5-years away.
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Perhaps less John Jevons small garden.
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Frequently attracts foreign visitors.
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Over 50 countries I know
testing and developing
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the technique they are interested
in the method because it is
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labor-intensive low technology and
uses minimal amounts of water
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and energy but its greatest appeal
is it\'s efficient use of land
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for example In India one
acre feet one-person
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American agriculture beats
four people per acre
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Kevin says Chadwick\'s method
can feed 15 people per acre.
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He sees it as an answer to
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an immediate problem as far as starvation and
of course that\'s already here it\'s here for
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many different reasons political
economic and sociological not just
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the in terms of food production but 21
children die every minute in the world.
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Due to malnutrition or
related diseases or to
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starvation and seven adults every minute
and I think that\'s you know very high.
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Already Here in the lush valleys
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of California 40% of America\'s
vegetables are grown.
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This centralized production
feeds a network of
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Packers distributors brokers and marketers.
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But with the cost of these
middlemen rapidly rising.
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People are turning to growing
their own food where they live.
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Half of all Americans now have gardens
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busy schedules leave little time for
cultivating crops but Kevin says.
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Individuals can grow all their
own food in as little as a
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half an hour a day to aid them
he has written a book that
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simplifies Chadwick\'s method
and the little man who\'s got
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a window box in New York Or the
little man who\'s got 20 feet by
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20 feet in a dat is smelly plot
where the bus fumes blows over
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it is discovering how to
grow things and compete
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Ellen Chadwick\'s abundant
garden in Virginia is gone
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uprooting after a year of hard
work the community lost the land.
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Despite it\'s demonstrated
potential experiments
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Chadwick\'s method hanging on the
weakest of financial threads
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Chadwick\'s Virginia apprentices
have scattered like seeds in
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the wind spreading his message
and connecting with hundreds of
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earlier students were begun garden
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projects this has camped
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joy in 8-year-old Garden Project in California
started by two Chadwick apprentices.
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They continue teaching the method.
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While living off the
produce and income from
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their two acre garden Beth
nelson worked with Chadwick.
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At Santa Cruz The more we come
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into face-to-face with the fact of
that oil and fossil fuels and and
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non ecological ways of doing
things now are becoming
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more obvious the more people have
to learn how to do it without
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and a garden is the most
efficient solar collector in
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the world to whether Chadwick apprentices.
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From his Covello California Garden.
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Have started a project north of
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San Francisco to provide chemically
free food for treatment of
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disturbed and hyperactive children
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Alonis his work that was done
and the work that he does.
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There\'s no doubt I mean it\'s
inspiring to people you in
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his lectures and if you work with
him forever for amount of time
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It has that effect that
you become really aware
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of the lack of that type of experience in the
world today and especially in this country.
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So there are thousands now have received
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the chadwick transmission and who have been
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transformed accordingly by it
and then who passed that on.
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So I suppose the best answer
is to wait to see what
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happens once this manifests
itself in the next generation.
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I think it\'s still
somewhat ahead of its time
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Alan will probably die before the
full meaning of his work will be
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realized But what I like is
that at least Alan by virtue of
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this odd coincidence of
coming here to begin
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this project has given
everyone another chance.
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Within the infant rind of this week flower
poison hath residence and medicine are
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two such oppose it Kings and kept
them still in man as well as
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grace And rude when and where the worst.
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Is predominant pool soon the
canker death will eat that plant.
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Today there is no obedience and reverence
of nature whatever in anybody.
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They couldn\'t care less
about the law of God.
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The Birth of the Four Seasons
or the cunning of door.
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It\'s switch on this turn on that
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what am I going to do a rag may next letter
the whole thing is verbosity the holding is
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what am I going to do how do I see God
how do I see the day to plan not Is
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the desk to teach for me to fulfill in the
land and here is where nature speaks.
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Here is where the whole door of the
plants and the birds speak and fulfill.
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And sing the song and the fulfillment of
this perception and is extremely simple it
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actually the whole answer is right in front
of our nodes and we\'re all pretending to look
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over the horizon to deceive the answer
it isn\'t it\'s in front of our news.
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It\'s on the ground in front of
us the very soil that we\'ve
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already desecrated that we
have got to restore and
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restore bit by bit Individual by individual
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and bring back the beauty and the
quality and the beauty and the
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qualitative Before the quantity
and then behave ourselves from
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dead-on
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artist
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teacher and
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master garden Alan Chadwick.
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Has chosen many roles to
deliver his simple son.
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Give back to the earth more than
you take in the earth will provide
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inglorious abundance As the demands
of a growing global community.
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Begin to stretch the Earth\'s supply of
land water and energy Alan Chadwick.
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Has left us a vision of the garden a symbol
of hope in the face of an uncertain future
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For more information on the biodynamic French
intensive method right Ecology Action.
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To two to five El Camino
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Real Palo Alto California
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94306
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Sure