Planting Life, Growing Community

Wendy Johnson, dedicated Zen Buddhist practitioner and gardener, weaves together threads of her life from her early Zen training years to her work establishing organic farms. For Wendy, there is no distinction between dharma and planting life. Wendy highlights the importance of story in embracing and navigating the suffering in the world. “In a time of disintegration and collapse, stories provide a rising immune response to disintegration and collapse.” She underscores the value of resilience, friendship, and community in facing the precarity of our time. At the edge of a great turning in the world, she asks us “where are you standing?”