Alan Chadwick's Enchanted Garden

On March 1, 1967, Alan Chadwick, A Shakespearean actor turned horticulturist, paid a visit to the newly established campus of the University of California at Santa Cruz, and was invited to start a garden there. Working like a man possessed, literally from dawn to dusk, seven days a week, he set about his task on unpromisingly thin soiled, rocky hillside. the result was a garden of such brilliance and such all but miraculous fecundity that students, townspeople, and then visitors from farther and farther away were drawn to it as bees are to the source of honey. As a practitioner of a school of horticulture called; to give its full name, the French Intensive Biodynamic method, Alan Chadwick has become the leading teacher of the "organic" school of gardening.