were usually three to six feet wide and of varying
lengths.
Between the 1920s and the 1930s, Alan Chadwick, an
Englishman, combined the biodynamic and French
intensive techniques into the biodynamic/French
intensive method. The United States was Erst exposed to
the combination when Mr. Chadwick brought the
method to the four-acre organic Student Garden at the
University of California’s Santa Cruz campus in the
1960s. Chadwick, a horticultural genius as well as an
avid dramatist and artist, had been gardening for half a
century. He had studied under Rudolf Steiner, the French
gardeners, and as a gardener for the Union of South
Africa. The site he developed at Santa Cruz was on the
side of a hill with poor soil with high clay content. Only
poison oak grew well in this area. Chadwick and his
apprentices removed the poison oak with pickaxes and
created a rich soil in two to three years by hand. A true
Garden of Eden grew from Chadwick’s vision and hard
work. Barren soil was made fertile through extensive use
of compost, with its life-giving humus. The humus
produced a healthy soil that grew healthy plants less
susceptible to disease and insect attacks. The many
nuances of the biodynamic/French intensive method—
such as transplanting seedlings into a better soil each
time a plant is moved and sowing by the phases of the
moon—were also used. The results were beautiful
Nowers with exquisite fragrances and tasty vegetables of
high quality.
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