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Wendy Johnson
Wendy is the author of Gardening at the Dragon’s Gate: At Work in the Wild and Cultivated World. She is a Buddhist meditation teacher and organic gardening mentor and one of the founders of the organic Farm and Garden Program at of the Green Gulch Farm Zen Center in Marin County, where she lived with her family from 1975 to 2000. Wendy has been practicing Zen Meditation for thirty-five years and has led meditation retreats nationwide since 1992 as an ordained lay Dharma teacher in the traditions of Vietnamese teacher Thich Nhat Hanh and the San Francisco Zen Center. She has been teaching gardening and environmental education to the public since the early 1980’s, helping to establish many garden programs in public schools, local communities, and hospice centers throughout the Bay Area. In 2000 Wendy and her husband, Peter Rudnick, received the annual Sustainable Agriculture Award form the National Ecological Farming Association. She was honored in The Best Science and Nature Writing 2000, published by Houghton Mifflin. Wendy is a mentor and advisor to the Edible Schoolyard program of the Chez Panisse Foundation, a project which she has been involved in since its inception in 1995. Upcoming Courses
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