Growing Myself: A Spiritual Journey Through Gardening

by Judith Handelsman, Judith Handlesman

Judith Handelsman, former garden columnist for Vogue and New Age Journal chronicles her personal journey through indoor and outdoor gardening to greater understanding of both herself and the green world. Inspired by master gardeners Peter and Eileen Caddy, founders of the Findhorn Community in Scotland, the writings of Rudolf Steiner, pioneer of biodynamic gardening, and Alan Chadwick, who combined spiritual philosophy with the French intensive method, Judith Handelsman began to explore the wonders of plants while still a city dweller and quickly grew to understand the fundamentals of gardening with a difference. From repotting and watering to resuscitating "dying" plants to coping with pests or picking food from your garden, it's possible to infuse gardening tasks with a spirit of cooperation that yields miraculous results. Whether you have a potted plant in a city apartment or acres of land in the country, or you simply enjoy nature, the author shows how to cultivate love, sensitivity to life, and the ability to discover the fantastic in the mundane.

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction, Memoir, Spirituality

178 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1996

Reviews

[Martha]

Just love!

[Laurla2]

a quaint book with some good points. skimmed about half of it. she makes a good point that being in the garden is a good way of being mindful, being in the moment. points out that studies have shown that alzheimers patients who are placed in a garden all day are no longer violent. and that european sanitariums incorporated time in their gardens as an essential part of the cure, in the not so distant past.

[Qin]

“Caring for a plant and watching it grow contains within it all the intricate possibilities and paradox of the entire universe.”