Planting Life, Honoring Traditional Ecological Knowledge

About this episode

Wendy Johnson discusses the importance of planting life and traditional ecological knowledge in challenging times.

In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk preceding the weekend retreat Planting Life, longtime teacher and master gardener Wendy Johnson calls the community “to plant life together in utterly dangerous times.” Weaving traditional ecological knowledge, Dogen’s Instructions to the Cook, and more than fifty years of earth dharma practice, Wendy plants us deep in our seats, reminding us planting is: “not… Source

People in this episode

Host: Joan Halifax

Guest: Wendy Johnson

Topics covered

• traditional ecological knowledge
• earth dharma
• community planting
• Buddhism
• environmentalism

Keywords

• planting life
• traditional ecological knowledge
• earth dharma
• Buddhism
• community

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Dogen’s Instructions to the Cook

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