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An enchanting guide for turning the art of gardening into opportunities for reflection and meditation. Contemplative Gardening makes the connection between tending to the earth and tending to our own souls, between caring for the planet and caring for one another. Pamela Dolan explores the myriad relationships between all living things that come to light when we dig in the soil. Whether you're an experienced gardener or one just beginning, you will be fed by this intersection of food and faith.
List of contents
Foreword by Peter H. Raven
Introduction: Finding God by Digging in the Dirt
1. Confessions of a Reluctant Gardener
2. Finding a Place
3. Grounding Ourselves in Soil
4. Death and Compost: Learning to Love Our Limits
5. Hospitality and Justice: Whose Land Is It, Anyway?
Afterword: The Ecology of God: On Psalm 23
Acknowledgments
Notes
About the author
Pamela Dolan is the rector of the Episcopal Church of St. Martin in Davis, California and is an active gardener. She started the Shepherd Farm Garden in suburban Missouri, which gave away thousands of pounds of produce to food-insecure households. Her religion writing has been featured in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Pamela is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School and holds a doctorate in ministry from Sewanee-The University of the South. She lives in Woodland, California.Peter Raven is an American botanist and environmentalist, notable as the longtime director, now President Emeritus, of the Missouri Botanical Garden. He served as an advisor to Pope Francis on Laudato Si and was named a Hero of the Planet by Time magazine. He lives in Wildwood, Missouri.
Summary
An enchanting guide for turning the art of gardening into opportunities for reflection and meditation.
Contemplative Gardening makes the connection between tending to the earth and tending to our own souls, between caring for the planet and caring for one another. Pamela Dolan explores the myriad relationships between all living things that come to light when we dig in the soil. Whether you’re an experienced gardener or one just beginning, you will be fed by this intersection of food and faith.
Foreword
For the 63 million people who garden, guidance for enhancing the act into meditative practice.
