Abundance Ecovillage Presents

Garden Song:

A film and talk about

Alan Chadwick

Location: Abundance Ecovillage (end of North B at 185^th street0

Date: Friday July 14

Time: Potluck @ 7:15, Film @ 7:45

(yes, you can see the film and still make the Big Wooden Radio show)

Alan Chadwick was a master gardener and inspiration for the French intensive/biodynamic method further developed and popularized by John Jeavons. Garden Song is a rare film with lots of footage of Alan Chadwick explaining his views on the relationship of people, the earth, and plants.

Film followed by a discussion on the life and work of Alan Chadwick by Riana Levy, who spent two months as an intern with Alan.

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lan Chadwick was an early advocate of organic agriculture and biodynamics. As early as 1900, his parents were influenced by Vedic philosophy through the Theosophical society and were friends of Rudolph Stiener, the originator of biodynamic agriculture. Alan experienced these influences at an early age and synthesized a spiritual, connected agriculture that he practiced and taught in his unique and flamboyant way. Alan spent 50 years in the garden – digging, planting, watching.

“ He never proselytized – he wasn’t a guru. He was just living proof of what he talked. He worked the land and made it bloom”

Abundance Ecovillage is 40 homes under construction at the corner of n B st and 185^th street, dedicated to building in tune with natural law using the ancient science of Maharishi Sthapahtya Veda and the latest in environmental design. Completely solar and wind powered, organic agriculture integrated throughout the project, rainwater and wastes treated as resources ( not problems) and under construction now.

For more information

Tel: 641-469-5240 e-mail: lgamble730@aol.com

www.abundance-ecovillage.com