Alan Chadwick Explained

Alan Chadwick
Birth Date:	27 July 1909
Nationality:	English
Occupation:	Master gardener
Known For:	Innovator of organic farming techniques and influential educator in the field of biodynamic/French intensive gardening.

Alan Chadwick (July 27, 1909  - May 25, 1980) an English master gardener, was a leading innovator of organic farming techniques^{[1] [2]} and influential educator in the field of biodynamic/French intensive gardening. He was a student of Rudolf Steiner^{[3] [4]} and is often cited^[5] as inspirational to the development of the "California cuisine" movement. The Chadwick restaurant in Beverly Hills was named after him.^[6] His grave is marked by a stupa at the Green Gulch Farm Zen Center in California. Chadwick is the subject of a 2013 retrospective by a former University of California, Santa Cruz, professor, Paul Lee, called There Is a Garden in the Mind: A Memoir of Alan Chadwick and the Organic Movement in California.^[7]

See also

• Biointensive
• Biodynamic agriculture
• French intensive gardening
• Green Gulch Farm Zen Center
• Organic farming

External links

• Chadwick, Alan
• Alan Chadwick -- Cutting Edge Groundbreakers
• Alan Chadwick is Gone

• Alan Chadwick's lecture on anemone cultivation
• A Tribute to Alan Chadwick, Master Gardener
• Fire in the Garden
• French Intensive Gardening: A Retrospective, News & Notes of the UC Santa Cruz Farm & Garden, Issue 112, Winter 2007
• Alan Chadwick, Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, Chadwick, Alan
• Guide to the Alan Chadwick Papers, UC Santa Cruz Special Collections and Archives
• Alan Chadwick, a Gardener of Souls A Resource Center about Alan Chadwick, his Gardens, and his Mission
• Photographs from the Alan Chadwick Garden series, UC Santa Cruz Library's Digital Collections
• http://chadwickarchive.org

Notes and References

1. http://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/biodynamic-gardening-zmaz80jfzraw.aspx "Biodynamic/French Intensive Gardening"
2. https://archive.today/20120714114314/http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/1000/1257.html "Intensive Organic Gardening"
3. http://www.learningtogive.org/papers/index.asp?bpid=188 "Alan Chadwick"
4. http://news.ucanr.org/newsstorymain.cfm?story=991 "UC Cooperative Extension advisor researches biodynamic grape production"
5. https://web.archive.org/web/20121023065944/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,455802,00.html "Growing Menus"
6. Jerry Shriver (May 25, 2001). USA Today: p. D.08
7. Book: There Is a Garden in the Mind: A Memoir of Alan Chadwick and the Organic Movement in California. North Atlantic Books. 978-1583945599. Lee. Paul A.. 17 March 2024.