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Wendy Johnson is experimenting with Kernza because she believes in the power of perennials. And livestock are helping make this cutting-edge crop a little less of a gamble. More Information • Jóia Food & Fiber Farm • Forever Green Initiative • Ear to the Ground 367: Disrupting the Food Chain • Ear to the Ground 365:… Read More → Source
In this moving Dharma talk, Wendy Johnson commemorates the third anniversary of her teacher Thich Nhat Hanh's death, celebrating his legacy as a peace activist and founder of the Order of […]
Episode 19 features a friend of mine and fellow Lakeland business owner, Wendy Johnson. In this episode, Wendy shares what kombucha is, how she makes it at her local brewery (Krazy Kombucha), why fermented foods and drinks are good for our guts, and much much more! If you have gut issues or simply want to find ways to incorporate fermented foods into your diet, this episode is for you!Krazy Kombucha Follow Krazy Kombucha on Instagram @krazykombuchahttps://krazykombucha.life/Purchase My Macro Magic Course: https://gettinghealthywithcis.restorationfitnesslkld.com/salespage Download my FREE shopping guides: Aldi - https://api.grow.pushpress.com/widget/form/7jfpK3ceqDtwEf47ajE3Sam's Club - https://api.grow.pushpress.com/widget/form/hfVqtHRtD1kBh94OtI3XCosco - https://api.grow.pushpress.com/widget/form/Lpl7xV1SXtgMMzWMktwGDownload my FREE Instant Pot Recipe Guide: https://gettinghealthywithcis.restorationfitnesslkld.com/salespageGet Your 10 Smoothie Recipe Guide: https://restoration.pushpress.com/landing/plans/plan_8cc2f0dfc1b476 Need A Personal Nutrition or Fitness Coach on Your Journey To Better Health? We will work with you in person and virtually! Book a FREE Intro Today to Learn More:https://api.grow.pushpress.com/widget/booking/8fG7UClFF0eHGU8BIZh
The Upaya garden ceremony begins with Wendy Johnson and Alonso Méndez preparing elements of fire, incense, seeds, water, and flowers while discussing their significance and importance in ceremony. The session moves to the practical […]
This is a continuation of the May31st session with Wendy Johnson and Alonso Méndez where they delve into the symbolism and significance of various elements in indigenous communities of growers and creators. […]
Wendy Johnson and Alonso Méndez delve into the symbolism and significance of various elements in indigenous communities of growers and creators. They highlight the importance of caves, prayers, ceremonies, and the three friends […]
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 […]
Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future...in this case YOUR future! Legendary writer and editor of X-Men Ann Nocenti joins Lodro to talk about the creation story of Longshot and Mojo! What was it like in the Marvel bullpen in the 80s punk era? How do you play editor to someone like Chris Claremont? War: what is it good for? Also in this episode: Lodro takes his top off for Ann! We talk about X-Men Legends 3, a fascinating story Ann wrote that takes place immediately after her 1980s Longshot mini-series featuring Wolverine and Kitty Pryde...at war. What does that issue say about all of US as a society? Tune in to find out! It is not just a horoscope; it is your mutant destiny decoded. Ann Nocenti is a renowned writer, editor, director and journalist. She teaches bootcamp filmmaking, most recently to at-risk teenagers in Kingston, NY, to Cherokee Native Americans at the Tulsa International Film Festival, and in Norway for the Indigenous Film Circle. Her journalism has appeared in Details, Utne, HEEB, Stop Smiling, PRINT, Filmmaker, Scenario, and more. She made a documentary about the resistance fighters in Baluchistan (with Wendy Johnson) called The Baluch and of course Ann is also known for her work in comics, writing Daredevil, editing the X-Men, and creating such iconic characters as Longshot, Typhoid, Spiral, Mojo, Blackheart and many more. More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com
This last talk of the winter practice period encapsulates the final reflections centered around themes of presence, gratitude, interconnectedness, and the transformative power of practice. Sensei Wendy underscores the importance […]
The teachers of this practice period each share their personal stories of finding Zen practice. Sensei Kodo shares his path to Zen practice, which began from a deep curiosity about […]
Roshi Joan, Wendy Johnson, Sensei Kozan, and Sensei Noah Kodo offer their final words of sesshin. Seeing these four teachers together beautifully displays the harmony of difference, each of them sharing […]
Wendy Johnson reminds us everything maters, every movement, word, action matters. How do we profoundly enter into our lives to be utterly present. Wendy implores us to drop down in whatever way […]
Começou o Intensivo SIM 2024 e o primeiro encontro já foi memorável. Recebemos a querida Sensei Wendy Johnson numa noite rara e íntima, e ela nos trouxe uma linda reflexão baseada no livro Gardens of Awakening (Jardins do Despertar), de Kazuaki Tanahashi e Mitsue Nagase. Ela apresentou sete qualidades da arte japonesa, que são também qualidades que podem ser encontradas em plantas específicas. Aqui para o podcast, separamos um breve resumo que ela fez sobre essas qualidades ao final de sua fala, e em seguida suas respostas a perguntas feitas pelo Gustavo Gitti e pelo Fábio Rodrigues. A tradução foi feita por Marcus Telles. Ainda dá tempo de participar. Mais informações em: olugar.org/sim
Koans are intimate knowledge, teaches Sensei Wendy Johnson, and to be effective they “must and only live in reality through direct experience.” Here, Sensei Wendy shares with us her intimate knowledge […]
Nos três primeiros encontros do ano, concentramos nossa atenção em exercitar o poder das aspirações e como essa prática, em um mundo com tantos problemas, desigualdades e violências diárias, nos ajuda a caminhar além dos extremos do cinismo e do romantismo. Neste episódio do podcast, Fábio Rodrigues fala sobre a importância de aspirar livremente e, na segunda metade, um exercício coletivo proposto por Lia Beltrão na semana anterior, convidando os integrantes da comunidade a compartilharem suas mais genuínas aspirações para este mundo. O Intensivo SIM deste ano está para começar, a escalação está impressionante e você ainda pode se inscrever entrando em olugar.org/sim. O primeiro encontro, dia 29 de janeiro, será com a sensei Wendy Johnson.
It is impossible to summarize a dharma talk so undomesticated and wild as the one delivered here by Zen teacher and master gardener Sensei Wendy Johnson. With passion and grit, […]
On this week's show, we bring you a vital community conversation about the 2023 Farm Bill that was recorded live on October 30th by Madison, Wisconsin's community radio station, WORT, during their weekday call-in program, "A Public Affair" hosted by Douglas Haynes. Learn more and find the original program at https://www.wortfm.org/whats-at-stake-2023-farm-bill/ Locally, the Food In Neighborhoods Community Coalition has produced a 2023 Eater's Guide to the Farm Bill that is tailored to people in Kentucky at https://foodinneighborhoods.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2023-eaters-guide-to-the-farm-bill-kentucky.pdf Every five years, law makers in Congress pass the “farm bill,” which is a set of legislation that creates nation-wide standards for agriculture and food systems. The current bill was passed in 2018 and will expire at the end of the year. Wendy Johnson and Lisa Held join host Douglas to talk about what is in the 2023 legislation, how the farm bill impacts farmers and the rest of us, and what's at risk if congress doesn't pass the bill. Lisa is Civil Eats' senior staff reporter and has been covering the Farm Bill at length (https://civileats.com/author/lheld/). We speak to her specifically about her piece, “This Farm Bill Could Reshape the Food System. Here Are 10 Proposals at the Center of the Fight.” Wendy is a farmer based in Iowa. She joins us from her farm to talk about her recent op-ed for Civil Eats titled, “Farmers Want Climate Resilience, but GOP Lawmakers Want to Redirect Billions in Conservation Funds.” Wendy Johnson is owner and operator of Jóia Food & Fiber Farm (https://www.joiafoodfarm.com/), a diverse perennial-based farm in northern Iowa growing perennial grains, grazing grassfed sheep and cows and humanely raising poultry and pigs. She started Counting Sheep Sleeping Company to add value to the fiber her 100 percent grass-fed sheep produce. Wendy also co-manages her family's conventional corn and soybean farm. She often speaks and writes about the need for diverse enterprises and people on the land, the intersections of climate change and agriculture, food system inequality, ag policy, and the observations on the lands she cares for. Wendy is currently Climate Land Leaders co-policy lead and spokesperson and provides leadership on several boards and committees furthering the growth of a more diverse and resilient Iowa and Midwest. Lisa Held is Civil Eats' senior staff reporter. Since 2015, she has reported on agriculture and the food system with an eye toward sustainability, equality, and health, and her stories have appeared in publications including The Guardian, The Washington Post, and Mother Jones. In the past, she covered health and wellness and was an editor at Well+Good. She is based in Baltimore and has a master's degree from Columbia University's School of Journalism. On Truth to Power each week, we gather people from around the community to discuss the state of the world, the nation, the state, and the city! It's a community conversation like you won't hear anywhere else! Truth to Power airs every Friday at 9pm, Saturday at 11am, and Sunday at 4pm on Louisville's grassroots, community radio station, Forward Radio 106.5fm WFMP and live streams at http://forwardradio.org
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Those of you who have been following our social media over the course of the last few weeks, or who subscribe to our newsletter have heard about the Soil & Health Forum hosted at Tara Firma Farms in Petaluma on September 16, 2023. It was an incredible gathering of like-minded individuals who are pushing for real change. Each person in attendance was and is dedicated to soil and to health. We felt the quiet prayers of Wendy Johnson who led the opening ceremonies, and even tasted the life-giving force of apples grown on the farm as the day began.Enjoy two sessions from the many offered that day, in this week's audio only presentation. You'll hear from Starhawk on Permaculture and from Brock Dolman on California Watershed issues and progress. For those that are interested in reviewing the complete video presentations from the day, please visit: https://soilandhealthforum.org. There you can review 2022 video presenations, and should soon be able to access the curriculum from this weekend's event, including the presentation that Corinna Bellizzi led with Beth Craig, former guest on Care More Be Better. Stay tuned in future weeks for additional content from the forum, and possibly interviews from the presenters, hopefully including Starhawk and Brock Dolman.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, & share! https://caremorebebetter.com Follow us on social and join the conversation! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/caremorebebetter Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/CareMore.BeBetter/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CareMoreBeBetter LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/care-more-be-better Twitter: https://twitter.com/caremorebebetter Clubhouse: https://www.clubhouse.com/club/care-more-be-better Support Care More. Be Better: A Social Impact + Sustainability PodcastCare More Be Better answers only to our collective conscience and aims to put more good into the world. As a listener, reader, and subscriber you are part of this pod and this community and we are honored to have your support. If you can, please help finance the show: https://caremorebebetter.com/donate.
Wendy Johnson joins us at the kitchen table to talk about her farm (Joia Food Farm) her farm journey and her joy of growing local food. We explore Kernza, the new, perennial grain that Wendy is trialing on her farm and helping to introduce to the market. Donna gives a history of perennial grain breeding at the Land Institute by Wes Jackson and her experience in baking with Kernza. Wendy talks about her sheep flock, how sheep are integrated into the crop and grazing rotation at Joia Farm and her marketing of the wool through her company Counting Sheep Sleep Company.
06/18/2023, Wendy Johnson, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. In this time of climate challenge and unrest, the engaged practice of Dharma and Ecology offers a grounded response.
Caring for senior animals can be a challenging, but immensely rewarding experience. Here's how Wendy Johnson started her path on this type of rescue.
Join me as I speak with Wendy Johnson, author and founder of Heal, where she shares her personal journey with sexual abuse and the pivotal moment when she faced her fears and broke the silence and the cycle that plagued her life. Wendy shares how to handle resistance from family and break the secrecy that surrounds sexual abuse, allowing the survivor to get the help and treatment they need. Wendy shares trusted resources that provide sexual abuse survivors with new life skills to help them overcome their past, stop the abuse from continuing, and tap into their potential and create hope and healing.
On the fourth night of Winter Practice Period sesshin, Sensei Wendy Johnson explores Case 89 of The Book of Serenity, “Dongshan's “Place of No Grass.””
@artivizmUpcoming book: The Ecology Cure: A Doctor's Prescription for Healing the Earth and OurselvesThe scene:We are in Chupadero, New Mexico sitting on Wendy's large “portal” (porch) overlooking an orchard and the acequia (canal) that was built in 1876. Wendy and I just met in person for the first time. She is kind and straightforward and accommodating - and her eyes are full of joy. She has a vibrancy and energy about her that permeates the stories of her life adventures from politics to public health and Chile to Mozambique. Join us holobionts to learn about Wendy's “place” and her adventurous journey toward it.Highlights:+ New Mexico is in the middle of a 1200-year drought+ The acequia used to have water from March through June (it's dry now)+ Humans forgot (300+ years ago) that they already are nature+ Re-wilding feels like a privilege+ We have lost our connection to place+ Humans are part of an ecosystem and our bodies are also ecosystems+ The Gaia theory: earth is a sentient organism and humans are the microbiome of the earth+ Holobiont: all the symbiotic relationships in our bodies required for us to live+ We can't be healthy when earth's ecosystem is unhealthy+ Italian family, from Ohio, schooled at Ohio State and a year in Chile+ Went to med school to do politics better+ The people who are creating health policies are career politicians - not doctors+ Doing a job to get the knowledge+ Worked in Mozambique Africa helping scale up HIV treatment+ Involved in the American Public Health Association+ Worked with Doctors for Global Health - volunteerism, “liberation medicine” in marginalized countries, solidarity (not charity)+ Jack Geiger - started the community health center movement, currently 1200 centers nationally+ “The social determinants of health” - holistic considerations for what affects health i.e. stable housing, etc.+ She became the Cleveland Medical Director for the City Health Dept.+ Obtained her Masters in Public Health at Johns Hopkins while also holding that position (hero!)+ Still (technically) a professor at the University of Washington Dept. of Global Health (Seattle)+ What medical school teaches doctors addresses 20% of what we need to be healthy+ If you're going to be a good doctor, you've got to get involved in political issues+ We share much of our DNA with trees+ Being connected to PLACE and not reducing it to a resource for extraction+ Creating a healthy society can be intuitive if you start from a place of revitalizing relationship+ The ethic of and commitment to community+ Buddhist-ish but not a club joiner+ Walking away from a relationship if it means not becoming who you need to be+ Women become invisible around 40 to 50 years old and up - in a great way+ Thank you for connecting us Mariel Nanasi! (See her interview)A taste:“If you're really connected to a place, if you're really connected to a community of people - and of non-human people, then you're going to have a whole different idea of what you're willing to do to preserve it, [...] and not just see it as a resource for your pleasure, or something to be extracted.”Favorite sayings:“Medicine is a social science and politics is just medicine on a large scale.” - Rudolph Virchow“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve or save the world and a desire to enjoy or savor the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” - EB WhiteSupport the showThank you for listening! Please subscribe to support this project.All episodes also available on sagewlf.com xoxo
Sensei Wendy Johnson gives a characteristically energizing, inspiring, and poetic talk on ecology and Dharma practice. She discusses the process and practice of planting and harvesting Upaya's garden this past year and the relationship she and Upaya have built with indigenous knowledge holders like Roxanne Swentzell and her family over time. Dharma practice, Sensei Wendy insists, […]
Despite increased requirements and encouragements to track what we do and how we do it in different areas of our lives, from job performance to sleep and diet, evidence suggests that constant tracking might not help that much with health and well-being and instead might have dire social consequences. Johnson uses human intelligence, which has been the object of efforts to track for more than 100 years, as an example of tracking's social consequences. The author suggests the potential for tracking activities to lead society into a dystopian future, much like the one portrayed in Huxley's Brave New World. Robert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS journal Current Directions in Psychological Science interviews Wendy Johnson, Professor in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh.
Upaya Zen Center welcomes beloved Buddhist author and visionary activist/scholar, Joanna Macy, to address our Socially Engaged Buddhist Training Program, along with the extended Upaya world community. With her are close colleagues Roshi Joan Halifax, Stephanie Kaza and Wendy Johnson. In this challenging time of unresolved war and environmental crisis, Joanna Macy's work is informed […]
Upaya Zen Center welcomes beloved Buddhist author and visionary activist/scholar, Joanna Macy, to address our Socially Engaged Buddhist Training Program, along with the extended Upaya world community. With her are close colleagues Roshi Joan Halifax, Stephanie Kaza and Wendy Johnson. In this challenging time of unresolved war and environmental crisis, Joanna Macy's work is informed […]
Welcome to the very first episode of season 2! Today we're on the other side of the microphone as Wendy Johnson who we talked to all the way back in S1:Ep11 is on the Zoom to interview us. She's asking her own questions plus some of yours, getting answers about Arlene's alternate life plan, weird things Caite has done for weird reasons, Alie Ward of the Ologies podcast, and a lot more.
08/28/2022, Wendy Johnson, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Wendy reflects on the Dharma of farming and shares principles by which to practice.
Teiwa sculptor Roxanne Swentzell hasn't owned a refrigerator for 26 years and reminds us that humans have lived without refrigerators for much longer than they've lived with them. It turns out that when we're mindful of the way we prepare, store, and consume food, we really don't need them. “Nothing is closer to us than […]
Sensei Wendy Johnson reflects with the sangha on Stephanie Kaza's talk, Dharma and Ecology, and tells a story about joining other faith leaders at Standing Rock in North Dakota to repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery. To access the resources page for this program, please sign up by clicking here.
This week Kent and Liz talk with Wendy Johnson.
Series Description: Upaya Zen Center's Planting Life is a yearly program grounded in the fields of environmental activism, engaged spiritual practice, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge. Planting Life: Learning from Traditional Ecological Knowledges and Cultivating the Dharma (2022) opens with an introductory teaching on Dharma and Ecology and Systems Theory by Stephanie Kaza, PhD, author of Green Buddhism and […]
We're on vacation for the month, so we're bringing back some of our early episodes.
Sensei Wendy Johnson kicks off Upaya's Planting Life 2022 with this talk on disintegration, growth, and persistence. “When human codes and established organizing principles are no longer valid, then only disintegration may allow for a more adaptive and resilient sense of inner-being to emerge from calamity.” With these words, Sensei Wendy Johnson, author of Gardening […]
Caring for senior animals can be a challenging, but immensely rewarding experience. Here's how Wendy Johnson started her path on this type of rescue. For more information go to A Touching Tribute to the Rescue That Doesn't Say No (mercola.com)
Sensei Wendy Johnson instructs us in the art of forming a zen altar. In her characteristic poetic style, Wendy talks about the elements that make up a Zen altar, sharing stories and photos of altars that she's created or encountered throughout her Zen practice. Wendy invites us to see the components of a Zen altar, such […]
The Fourteen Precepts of the Order of Interbeing were first written and transmitted by Vietnamese Zen Master and poet, Thich Nhat Hanh, in 1964; this Dharma talk celebrates the ongoing engaged Buddhist tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh who died this January, 2022, after living in vow as a zen monk for more than 80 years. 04/10/2022, Wendy Johnson, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
In this final dharma talk of winter practice period, Roshi Joan Halifax and Sensei Wendy Johnson recite the couplets of the Song of the Jewel Mirror of Samadhi. They reflect on the time that we spent together in practice period and the importance of practicing together to create intimacy and entrust ourselves to belong to […]
In this beautiful talk, Sensei Wendy Johnson recalls her love story with Thich Nhat Hanh after his death just days earlier. Beginning with Dogen's Fukanzazengi, she calls us into deep practice with our root teachers and admonishes us to show up like freshly unearthed turnips, all our roots showing. Wendy speaks of her deep and […]
Sensei Wendy Johnson begins by sharing with us the history and tradition of the Song of the Jewel Mirror of Samadhi. She reminds us that this song lives in us, and we are spending this month integrating and allowing it to become part of us. She tells us that “we shine by perishing” and invites us to […]
In this conversation between two veteran Zen practitioners and old friends. The master cook, Deborah Madison, and the master gardener, Wendy Johnson speak about their time practicing together over the years, the lessons they still take with them today, and the projects which still enthuse their lives. Join us for this warm conversation.
Wendy Johnson started out as an M&A consultant at Accenture, and she got to IBM ten years ago. Now, she is the Vice President at PagerDuty. In this episode, Wendy talks about the reasons you work with a consultant and not just with someone internally. She emphasize the idea of looking at pricing not as a project but as a process that needs tweaking as you go along and not overhauling. Why you have to check out today's podcast: Discover the reasons how companies benefit from hiring external consultants Find out the advantages and disadvantages of hiring external vs. internal consultants. Find out how to hire and work with an excellent consultant to avoid wasting money, time, and effort. “Structure your data and your dashboards in a way to inform all your decisions and such that all of the decisions you make in pricing could be data-driven.” - Wendy Johnson Topics Covered: 01:39 - Why is it relevant to talk now about a topic on consultants 02:15 - Getting consultants versus hiring them 04:52 - Making the most of a consultant's engagement with the company 06:04 - Engaging consultants and the value they contribute to the company 07:25 - Driving force behind onboarding a consultant 08:11 - Observation on how consultants work 09:03 - Consultants hiring their own excellent talents 11:00 - Why hire a pricing leader in your company before hiring a consultant 12:34 - What you can do to get other executives involved in getting a consultant 13:12 - One good thing to think about getting data analysts to get involved with consultants 13:58 - Way of knowing for a successful engagement 15:32 - Disagreeable actions consultants do and how to avoid them 17:18 - Thoughts on hiring second consultants and pricing 19:21 - Her pricing advice that could greatly impact one's business 20:28 - Important KPIs she looks at in her dashboard Key Takeaways: “I found that the best way to use consultants and the best way to enter into those relationships is to have a structured engagement with a very finite piece of work or finite task. I think a lot of times the project is too broad. And you end up when that engagement ends, not being left with enough to actually use the work they've done.” - Wendy Johnson “I think we have to be thoughtful when we engage the consultant not only thinking about the piece of work that they want us to deliver but including what it's going to look like after they leave, like what tools are they leaving for us to use, to reassess.” - Wendy Johnson “There's been a scenario where we knew we just did not have enough feet on the ground doing a huge transformation. You don't necessarily want to hire a lot of talent, because that capacity need is temporary. So, then you figure out how to fill that temporarily, with consultants, or there's a specific skill set that you know and that's temporary as well.” - Wendy Johnson “I think if we have an answer to our question at the end of the engagement, and then if we have a way to continue doing that work, we're not stuck with that, that's success.” - Wendy Johnson “Pricing shouldn't always be project work. You should build a framework, and there should be some consistent cadence and how you measure performance and you should be tweaking more than overhauling.” - Wendy Johnson Connect with Wendy Johnson: Email: wkjtoday@gmail.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendykimjohnson/ Connect with Mark Stiving: Email: mark@impactpricing.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stiving/
Fashion blogger falls in love with SoCal beach bum, moves to Iowa, raises sheep, changes the world. Possibly the plot for this year's Hallmark Christmas special, definitely the gist of this week's episode. Big thanks to Wendy Johnson and Johnny Rafkin of Joia Food Farm, Center View Farms, and Counting Sheep Sleep Company (yes, they really are that busy) for taking time out to share their story with us!
Wendy Johnson begins by reminding us of the previous day's planting of the three sisters in the Upaya garden. The ancient sisters of squash, beans, and corn. In such difficult times, gardening as a practice allows us to not look away from our grief. It is of the utmost importance to stop, not turn away, and […]
Wendy Johnson discusses the Vimalakirti sutra and connects this text and its teachings with the living teacher Thích Nhất Hạnh. She explains that Vimalakirti is a wounded healer boddhisatva, “dangerous to settled life in every way and alive with the feral vow to benefit all beings.” She shares with us that bodhisattvas become sick due […]
Episode Description: Sensei Wendy Johnson begins by reminding us of the previous day's planting of the Three Sisters in the Upaya garden. The ancient sisters of squash, beans, and corn. In such difficult times gardening as a practice allows us to not look away at our grief. The importance of stopping, not turning away, in order […]
Episode Description: Sensei Wendy Johnson begins her talk by drawing our attention to the many challenges confronting us today: the extreme climate swings around the world, the death and despair from the global pandemic, the 100 year anniversary of the Tulsa Massacre, and the legacy of genocide and racism in the USA. ‘Old zen…,' Wendy […]
In commemoration of the 51st anniversary of Earth Day, Wendy Johnson weaves together Dharma and Ecology with the saga of a dead grey whale washed up on the shores of Muir Beach near Green Gulch, drawing on Engaged Buddhist teaching from Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh and the encouragement to imagine a universe that is self-creating, self-maintaining and enlivened by co-dependent origination. 04/25/2021, Wendy Johnson, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
Today we celebrate a man who wrote the book on growing and selling orchids. We'll also learn about a very special Arbor Day to honor Luther Burbank. We hear a touching excerpt about the final days of an incredible gardener, teacher, and friend. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book about the beautiful flowers of Japan. And then we’ll wrap things up with a sweet little advertisement about the Gladiolus and Dahlias - two beautiful flowers that most gardeners are ordering and shopping for this month (if they haven’t already). Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart To listen to the show while you're at home, just ask Alexa or Google to “Play the latest episode of The Daily Gardener Podcast.” And she will. It's just that easy. The Daily Gardener Friday Newsletter Sign up for the FREE Friday Newsletter featuring: A personal update from me Garden-related items for your calendar The Grow That Garden Library™ featured books for the week Gardener gift ideas Garden-inspired recipes Exclusive updates regarding the show Plus, each week, one lucky subscriber wins a book from the Grow That Garden Library™ bookshelf. Gardener Greetings Send your garden pics, stories, birthday wishes, and so forth toJennifer@theDailyGardener.org Curated News 5 Perennial Herbs You Should Grow | Hunker | Michelle Miley Facebook Group If you'd like to check out my curated news articles and original blog posts for yourself, you're in luck. I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. So, there’s no need to take notes or search for links. The next time you're on Facebook, search for Daily Gardener Community, where you’d search for a friend... and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group. Important Events March 4, 1847 Today is the birthday of the German-English orchidologist and nurseryman Henry Frederick Conrad Sander. As a young man of 20 years old, Conrad met the Czech plant collector Benedict Roezl. Benedict’s heart lay in exploration and acquisition; he did not enjoy the marketing and sales aspects of plant hunting. Instead, these skills were Conrad’s strengths. The two men struck up a business plan that left Benedict free to explore and collect and Conrad to sell, sell, sell. Conrad set up shop in St. Albans, and Benedict was soon sending shipments of orchids from Central and South America. Benedict collected for Sander for 40 years. Even though Benedict was 6'2" tall and had that imposing iron hook for a hand, Benedict was robbed 17 times and, once, even attacked by a jaguar during his collecting days. After his quick success with Benedict, Conrad expanded his operations. Soon Conrad was managing inventory from over twenty collectors, growing orchids in over sixty greenhouses, and entertaining visitors that included Europe’s top collectors and even royalty. As a result of his business success acquiring, breeding, and selling orchids, Conrad became known as the King of Orchids. Leveraging his incredible expertise, Conrad wrote a masterpiece in two volumes on every variety of orchid. The book was folio-sized, with text in three languages - English, French, and German - and the botanical drawing of orchids were life-sized. As a sign of great respect, Conrad named his book Reichenbachia in honor of the legendary orchidologist Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach. Reichenbach had named more orchids than any other person, and in his will, he asked that his herbarium be closed for 25 years to protect his work with orchids from his competitors. In turn, in 1882, Heinrich honored Sanders by naming the “Queen of Philippine Orchids” after Sanders - naming it the Vanda Sanderiana, which the locals called the waling-waling orchid. The waling-waling is considered one of the rarest, most beautiful, and most expensive orchid, and it is also one of the largest species of orchids in the world. Orchids are some of the world’s oldest flowering plants, producing the world’s tiniest seeds. A single Orchid seedpod can contain three million seeds! Orchids are also the largest family of flowering plants in the world. With over 25,000 species, Orchids represent about ten percent of all plant species on earth, and there are more orchids on earth than mammals and birds! Now, once they are germinated, Orchids can take five to seven years to produce a flower. And if you look at the orchid bloom closely, you’ll see that the blossom, like the human face, is perfectly symmetrical, which only adds to their visual beauty. And, by the time you are buying that Orchid at Trader Joe’s, it is likely already decades old. But never fear, Orchids are long-lived and can reach their 100th birthday. The vastness and complexity of orchids can be frustrating. Charles Darwin grew so discouraged writing his book about orchids that he wrote to a friend, “I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything.” March 4, 1949 On this day, the Santa Cruz Sentinel out of Santa Cruz, California, published a lovely story about the upcoming Arbor Day celebration. The story featured a wonderful photo of a tree being pruned with the caption, “Santa Rosa Citizens To Plant Trees In Commemoration Of Birth Of Famed Luther Burbank: Nurseryman Joe Badger, who in his youth used to steal fruit from Luther Burbank's trees, prunes a flowering plum tree as Burbank's widow looks on. On Arbor Day, which this year will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great horticulturist, this tree will be planted in Mrs. Burbank's garden at Santa Rosa, Calif, near the spot where her husband is buried. ” Burbank’s widow said, “No, there will be no wreath-laying on Luther Burbank's grave... Laying a wreath is only a ceremony... It doesn't make things grow." she said. Instead, she and Nurseryman Joe Badger, who as a youngster stole plums from the Burbank experimental gardens, will plant a flowering plum tree adjoining the Redwood highway, where passersby can enjoy it. "That is the way he would have wanted it without ceremony. Mr. Burbank never liked fanfare. His interest was in things alive like a tree or a plant or a flower. Or a group of school children coming to sing to him on his birthday." The flowering plum was developed by her husband. He gained world fame with his Burbank potato, his spineless cactus, and many other horticultural achievements. Her husband now lies buried under a huge Cedar of Lebanon tree in a simple unmarked grave. Beside him lies his white mongrel dog, Bonita, who was his constant companion until Burbank died in 1926. Burbank requested that no marking be placed above his burial place. Instead, he was buried beneath his Cedar of Lebanon. He, himself, had planted the seed sent by a friend in Palestine. He had said, "When I go, don't raise a monument to me; plant a tree," Unearthed Words We were not to live and practice with Alan Chadwick again until eight years later, when he returned to Green Gulch at the end of his life. Despite the unrelenting grip of his illness, Alan continued to rage against the dying of the light. He announced with dignity, “I intend to be in the garden tomorrow.” “We will welcome you,” I murmured… Alan never made it to the garden. Instead, we brought the garden to him. I cut armloads of fresh flowers for him every few days, winter jonquils and Korean lilac, wind-blown anemones and stiff Coral Quince that Alan recognized from his original gardens at Green Gulch, and a single blood-red poppy grown from seed gathered from the World War II battlefields of Flanders. During these months, the garden itself upwelled with a rare treasure trove of bloom, and Allen drank long draughts from the bottomless pool of flowers. — Wendy Johnson, Gardening at the Dragon’s Gate, Chapter 1: Valley of the Ancestors Grow That Garden Library Flora Japonica by Masumi Yamanaka This book came out in 2017, and Masumi is an award-winning botanical artist based at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. In this book, Masumi begins by revealing the history of Japanese botanical illustration with a lovely overview of the influential botanist and illustrator Tomitaro Makino's work. Next, Masumi shares beautiful artwork that showcases the indigenous plants of Japan. Flora Japonica showcases eighty specially-commissioned paintings from thirty-six of Japan’s best modern botanical artists. Daily Gardeners will love that each painting also shares detailed information about the plant’s habitat and history, as well as a botanical description. This book is 240 pages of botanical art that highlights Japan’s glorious and incomparable flora. You can get a copy of Flora Japonica by Masumi Yamanaka and support the show using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for around $4 Today’s Botanic Spark Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart March 4, 1956 It was on this day that the Chicago Tribune ran two advertisements for Gladiolus and Dahlias by R. H. Shumway. The Gladiolus were being sold as a rainbow mixture. 50 bulbs cost $1.00, 100 bulbs cost $1.75 and 200 bulbs cost $3.25. The Dahlias were the New Giant variety, and two bulbs cost 25 cents, and that also covered the cost of postage. Right about now is the perfect time to order Gladiolus and Dahlias. Gladiolus are the official flower of August. Gladiolus's etymology is Latin and means “little sword” in reference to the shape of the flowers. The corms have been used medicinally to help extract slivers or thorns. In cold climates, once you plant your gladiolus and enjoy their blooms in late summer, you can dig the bulbs up in the fall and store them until you can plant them again in the spring. And I’ll never forget what my friend Joel Karsten, the author of Straw Bale Gardening, told me about how easy it is to plant gladiolus in conditioned straw bales. Once the flowers are done blooming in the fall, you just kick the bale over, and all the corms fall out for easy gathering. As for the beautiful Dahlia, it was originally grown as a food crop. It turns out the tubers are edible and taste a little like other root vegetables: the potato and the carrot. The Dahlia is named to honor the Swedish botanist Anders Dahl. Dahlias are in the same family as Common Daisies and Sunflowers. Dahlias come in all shapes and sizes, and some are as large as dinner plates. And, here’s a little fun fact about the Dahlia: it’s the official flower of the city of destiny and goodwill: Seattle. Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener. And remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."
Episode Description: On the last sesshin dharma talk of the Gateless Gate, Winter Practice Period, Sensei Wendy Johnson chooses Case 6 of the Mumonkan, Twirling the Flower. ‘Our practice is to see each other…Zen isn’t a puzzle to be figured out by wit…but spiritual food for those who are hungry, those who want to digest and […]
Rick, Doug, and Kristi were in to take your gardening questions. Plus, Bill "the birdman" Stovall was spoke about Cardinals. Then, Wendy Johnson the Cardinal Lady joined the show. Last, words of the day and the Flowerland Quiz.
In this inspiring Winter Practice Period Dharma talk, Wendy Johnson uses the koan of the Oak in the Courtyard as a threshold to bring us into the ‘the root system of the great heart, of the great matter.’ ‘How we can let the koan soak us in,…for they are love stories, yet, we can love them so much […]
You're listening to Danny, on WHAT : DE HEK podcast. This is the place where I share my experience, knowledge and skills.Transcribed by OtterDanny de Hek 0:00Hello, welcome along, I have a new guest, which I don’t know too well. I’ve actually first time I’ve actually had a video meeting together, but I’ve introduced as Wendy Lynn Johnson and we’re about are you based?Wendy Lynn Johnson 0:27I am in Washington State.Danny de Hek 0:29Excellent. I’m in Danny and I’m in New Zealand and introduce our guests. So what we’re doing and familiar with my podcast is I have 12 questions I asked my visitors, and we get straight into it before we find out who they are and what they do. So my first question on the card that even I don’t know what it is, what’s one thing you will never do again?Wendy Lynn Johnson 0:52That’s really easy. I will never be a Jehovah’s Witness again.Danny de Hek 0:58Brilliant!One, I should have asked near the end that that’s, that’s going to be an interesting story coming out. Yeah. Well, I’m going to pick a nother question. That’s question number one or leaving questions to go. Right. What three items would you take with you on a desert island?Wendy Lynn Johnson 1:16Desert Island? Oh, that’s interesting. Um, well say clean water. Um, my crystal. Ooh. And something to make a fire.Danny de Hek 1:41Fire. You can cook. You can eat your crystals over them. You mightWendy Lynn Johnson 1:46Need water and fire.Danny de Hek 1:48That’s good. These questions are totally random. So I, myself don’t even know what’s coming up. Really? Next. thing. Okay, what is your favourite family holiday might be when you’ve had it. Probably not much holiday and going on at the moment, unfortunately. But what’s one that comes to mind?See Full TXT Script at https://www.dehek.com/general/podcast/what-de-hek-podcast-12-questions-with-wendy-lynn-johnson/P.S. If you like this podcast please click “like” or provide comment, as that will motivate me to publish more. Would you like the opportunity to be featured on the WHAT : DE HEK Podcast? You are welcome to INVITE YOURSELF to be a guest.
Series Description: Practice Period (Ango or “peaceful dwelling”) is a traditional intensive training period common to most schools of Buddhism. Ango traces its history to the time of Shakyamuni Buddha and the early sangha. Each year, the community would gather together enabling everyone to deepen their practice and polish their understanding through the indispensable teachings […]
Episode Description: In this week’s Dharma talk Roshi Joan Halifax and Sensei Wendy Johnson set the stage for the Winter Practice Period, the Gateless Gate, by looking at the role and importance of koan practice in today’s tumultuous times.
In this episode, Steve Smith and Andy Fitzell interview Spencer Johnson. He is the son of Joey and Wendy Johnson. Spencer, who grew up in Utah, recently signed a letter of intent to play tennis for UCLA. The future Bruin has spent years working with GreatBase Tennis on tennis and life skills. Listeners will find Spencer's input to be refreshing and informative.Topics include:IntroductionWorthy to WinThe ToySigning with UCLALate bloomer vs teenage sensationServing a missionQ & AHabitsAdvice for junior players with competitive goalsPlus much more!
~Co-presented with the Mesa Refuge~ Please join New School host and Zen Meditation teacher Jaune Evans in conversation with Buddhist meditation and organic gardening mentor Wendy Johnson. This dialogue will be grounded in the examination of four core principles of Zen Buddhism and gardening: cultivating the way, maintaining fertility in your practice, propagating new life, and tending the earth. There will be ample opportunity to interact with the presenters during this practical presentation. Wendy is a Buddhist meditation teacher and organic gardening mentor who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She began practicing Zen Buddhist meditation in 1971 and has led meditation retreats nationwide since 1992 as an ordained lay dharma teacher in the traditions of Vietnamese Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh and the San Francisco Zen Center. As one of the founders of the organic farming program at Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, Wendy has been teaching organic agriculture and meditation for decades. Since its inception in 1995, she has been a mentor and advisor to the Edible Schoolyard Project affiliated with Chez Panisse restaurant. She served as a founding instructor of the College of Marin’s innovative Organic Farm and Gardening Project established in 2009, where she taught organic agriculture for the first seven seasons of the program. In 2000 Wendy and her husband, Peter Rudnick, received the annual Sustainable Agriculture Award from the National Ecological Farming Association. She is the author of Gardening at the Dragon’s Gate, published by Bantam in 2008. Jaune Evans is the executive director of Tamalpais Trust, which supports global indigenous-led organizations. She is a Soto Zen teacher and priest in the Everyday Zen sangha guided by Norman Fischer. Jaune also leads the Heart of Compassion sangha in Point Reyes on Friday mornings at the Presbyterian Church. Her love for stories and West Marin have deep roots. She has served as a board member and advisory committee member of the Mesa Refuge, and has also received two of Mesa’s writing fellowships. Jaune is a new member of the Commonweal Board of Directors, former director of the Institute for Art and Healing at Commonweal, and is currently a facilitator in Commonweal’s Healing Circles program. Find out more about The New School at Commonweal on our website: tns.commonweal.org. And like/follow our Soundcloud channel for more great podcasts.
Why you have to check out today’s podcast: Learn how to involve stakeholders in making pricing decisions, why it is considered a team effort Determine the best ways to be influential and stay price competitive despite experiencing business challenges Find out the key qualities required to rise through the ranks and become a highly qualifies and effective pricing executive Wendy Johnson started out as an M&A Consultant at Accenture. After she got her MBA, she went to IBM, another big corporation as a pricing and investment specialist. She was at CA Technologies for eight years where she was VP of Global Pricing and is now an executive at FIS. In this episode, Wendy talks about what skills and characteristics you need to have to function as a key pricing executive effectively, at the same time manage the best pricing team and how being logical is crucial in making pricing decisions. “I find that we can do the best work in terms of pricing and setting a price that best aligns with your strategy. But the people who have to execute it determines the success of that price.” - Wendy Johnson Increase Your Pricing Knowledge: Become a Champions of Value INSIDER! To sign up go to insider.championsofvalue.com Topics Covered: 01:18 - How did Wendy start her career in Pricing 02:40 - What made her stay in Pricing all these years 03:24 - What made her rise up through the ranks 04:43 - What influence do her mentors have on her 05:41 - Is she a logical or touchy-feely managerial person 06:51 - The important skills needed to be in a pricing team 09:45 - How to set pricing where sales and product management department agree 11:46 - Doing the right thing for the business 12:24 - Pushing the big wall 14:27 - Qualities of a leader that are needed to replace Wendy 15:38 - Wendy’s one big Pricing advice that would impact one’s business 16:53 - How to get people to understand the value of their products Key Takeaways: “I think the key is knowing how to build relationships. Pricing is, typically anytime you're making a pricing decision, there's a lot of emotion behind it, whether it's from the product owners, or the salespeople, there's conflict across those different groups. And you have to be able to manage those discussions and not be emotional and come out with an answer that maybe not everybody likes, but everybody can accept, and everybody can support and respect.” - Wendy Johnson “A lot of times when you have, most of the work that's thrown our way where people want some kind of pricing analysis. The problem is, usually not pricing. People usually think it's pricing because it's the easiest thing to point to.” - Wendy Johnson “The most valuable use of your time is probably figuring out how to be the most influential within the constraints that you have, and trying to make an incremental change on pushing out those walls at the same time.” - Wendy Johnson “Who do you choose to replace you? It's a tough decision and it's usually looking forward in terms of what's next on the docket and who you think would be better aligned to that particular project?”- Wendy Johnson “You can tell how good your sales team is, if you ask somebody else in the company like an administrative assistant or somebody in operations, what your company sells and what the value is, and if they can answer that. Do you have champions for what you do as a company and do they understand the value?” - Wendy Johnson People / Resources Mentioned: Denise Elias Connect with Wendy Johnson: LinkedIn Connect with Mark Stiving: Email: mark@impactpricing.com LinkedIn
AWAKENED ACTION: Women Leaders Speak to Race, Poverty, Climate, and the Pandemic Awakened Action brought together a remarkable faculty of women leaders and scientists to address the relationship between racial injustice, poverty, the climate catastrophe, and the pandemic. This special program unpacked why it is essential to face and transform the complex psycho-social factors giving […]
Despite challenges like shuttered farmers' markets and restaurants, a shortage of meat processors, and the scramble to move sales online, small and mid-size farmers have demonstrated real resilience during COVID-19, even as other parts of the food system shut down. In a recent online panel produced by the James Beard Foundation and Civil Eats, host Lisa Held spoke with farmers and leaders around the country to explore how the pandemic has affected regional food systems and what it all means for the future. The conversation features Cornelius Blanding, Executive Director of The Federation of Southern Cooperatives, Dena Leibman, Executive Director of Future Harvest, Lindsey Lusher Shute, CEO/Farmer/Co-Owner of Farm Generations and Hearty Roots Community Farm, and Wendy Johnson, Farmer/Co-Owner/Manager of Jóia Food Farm and Center View Farms. This panel was part of a James Beard Foundation webinar series to support the food and hospitality industry through COVID-19. To listen to additional conversations, visit https://www.jamesbeard.org/industry-support-webinars.Image courtesy of Jóia Food Farm.Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support The Farm Report by becoming a member!The Farm Report is Powered by Simplecast.
Dr. Wendy Johnson is the guest in this fasten-your-seat-belt episode. She's an M.D., with a Master's degree in public health from Johns Hopkins. She's worked on health projects in Mozambique, Vietnam, the Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Haiti, and several South American countries. Currently, Wendy Johnson is the medical director for La Familia Medical Center in Santa Fe. Wendy's story helps illustrate the beauties and challenges of change at the public health level. Did you know that the community health center movement grew out of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, emerging out of South Africa? Melanie didn't. But Wendy does. She and Melanie talk about the social determinants of health, that people can't be healthy when ecosystems aren't well, and what sort of mindset change is needed to shift our thinking. The place of happiness in such times as these is also discussed, along with the power of creative exploration and creative processing. Wendy's got a big mind, with an incredible richness of international experience in public and community health. It's a rich show, as a result. La Familia Medical Center website here Melanie Harth website here
Dharma farmer Sensei Wendy Johnson offers words to nourish our lives and to feed a hungry world. She shares her practice of “just doing zazen innocently, without any aiming,” preparing Upaya’s residence for the planting of the Three Sisters Garden.
Sensei Wendy Johnson speaks to the complicated, archetypal, and ever-changing form of Avalokiteshvara, the embodiment of “active and grounded… flowering and emanating” compassion.
On the final day of sesshin, Matthew Kozan Palevsky opens up about the frayed edges coming apart at the end of this practice period. Wendy Johnson extols the beauty of kelp who cling to the bottom of the ocean, despite the currents, by way of a “holdfast.” She encourages us to do the same in our own […]
Wendy Johnson encourages us to practice gratitude in everything we do, including being grateful for our meditation seats because “with gratitude comes a basic ferocity of intention.” Along those same lines, to cultivate an attitude of freshness and originality in your practice. What does gratitude look like for you? For Series description, please visit Part […]
Led by an extraordinary team of teachers, including Roshi Joan Halifax, Wendy Johnson, Matthew Kozan Palevsky, and Kigaku Noah Rossetter, this sesshin looks at the deep roots of practice through the lens of direct experience and the stories of the Denkoroku, or the Transmission of the Light. To begin our sesshin, Roshi Joan Halifax and Kigaku […]
In the final talk of the Winter Practice Period, Roshi Joan Halifax leads a discussion on Dogen as we commemorate his birthday. Wendy Johnson, Kigaku Noah Rossetter, and Matthew Kozan Palevsky are also on hand as Upaya residents and guests describe their experiences of Dogen’s writing and practice. We finish with an exploration of Dogen’s own case from the Transmission […]
Today’s talk is primarily given by Roshi Joan Halifax with Wendy Johnson, Kigaku Noah Rossetter, and Matthew Kozan Palevsky joining her near the end. Roshi Joan goes into great detail about the process of meditation and the experiences of breakthrough or awakening that can occur. For Series description, please visit Part 1. To access the entire […]
Ray and Annette chat with Hayley Guglietta from Invoro Canterbury Envoro Hub and also Wendy Johnson about roses.
Soul Soil: Where Agriculture and Spirit Intersect with Brooke Kornegay
What happens when we design from observation of Nature and not for human convenience? What would change in our experience if we decided to simplify our outer lives, while cultivating our inner life? In today's episode, we discuss these and other insights from meditations on the Holy Honey Bee. Skye’s first career was in theatre, and in her mid thirties decided to enter the temple life and become a Buddhist monk. Skye began the work of caring for and creating gardens, as well as researching various metaphysical studies including feng shui, tarot, astrology and the five great elements. Skye is motivated by the yearning for Beauty, for intimacy with the Holy, for a penetrating understanding of this strangely cruel and lovely world, and is constantly seeking the path from cruelty to Beauty. Positive change doesn't come from the top-down, but from the bottom-up. When we the people make conscious choices and make those choices known with our dollar and with our time, only then will the forces that shape the world begin to shift. In this episode... The Temple Hive, a home designed for bees What happens when systems are designed by observing Nature instead of being designed for human convenience? Learning from Wendy Johnson (trained under Alan Chadwick, who trained under Rudolf Steiner) How the Temple Hive materials relate to the planets (and how the planets correspond to the bees) We won't reach the tipping point of a regenerative, sustainable culture until the consumer realizes their power to direct change Temple Hive performance--the health this hive design, built as a gift, not built for extraction Rudolf Steiner's prediction of the decline of bee populations with the practice of annual re-queening How the life cycles of the bees correspond to celestial cycles and the Golden Mean (the Fibonacci Sequence) The importance of starlight for bees and humans--and the lack of it in our light-polluted world Guidance from the bees: learn to simplify, learn to appreciate the night and the wild world, pay attention, get quiet, be present If we don't pay attention to our inner lives, we need more and more distraction and stimulation in our daily existence The day is for serving, the night is for being nourished by Spirit; and the in-between moments, dawn and sunset, are especially auspicious for meditation and grounding Resources A Monk in the Beehive by Skye Taylor https://www.skye-talk.com/ San Francisco Zen Center (Green Gulch Farm) How to build a Temple Hive: Step by step videos: video 1, video 2, video 3, video 4, video 5, video 6 Gardening at the Dragon's Gate by Wendy Johnson The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter ------------------Follow me on--------------------- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedissenteryt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDissenterYT Dr. Wendy Johnson is Professor of Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. She also holds the Chair in Differential Development in the University of Edinburgh's Department of Psychology and Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology. She is known for her research on human intelligence and personality. In 2004, the International Society for Intelligence Research honored her with its John B. Carroll Award for Research Methodology. In 2011, she received the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology, in recognition of her work on the individual differences of intelligence and personality. Topics of her research include: structure of intelligence and personality, life-span development of intelligence and personality, health and aging, genetic and environmental transactions and their influence on behavior, intelligence, and personality. In this episode, we talk mostly about personality traits and IQ. Topics include: the Big Five, and other personality traits inventories; the reliability of personality measures; the many ways genetics and the environment interact to build up our psychology; how our psychological traits are polygenic (influences by several genes); the influences of parents and other aspects of the environment; the effects of IQ and personality in old age, and the long-term benefits of high IQ and certain personality traits, like conscientiousness. Time Links: 01:22 Big Five and other personality inventories 06:09 The earliest point in life to measure personality 09:27 Are questionnaires and reports reliable? 14:31 The interplay between genetics and the environment 18:09 Studies with twins and adoptees 19:57 The trouble with identifying genes associated with psychological traits 22:56 Are genetic effects greater after people leave their parents' house? 27:01 Rich vs impoverished environments, and their effects 30:51 Old age, mental health, and personality 33:33 The long-term benefits of high IQ 37:14 Intelligence and health 43:12 But intelligence is not the same as wisdom. We also need other traits. 47:55 Follow Dr. Johnson's work! -- Follow Dr. Johnson's work: Faculty page: https://tinyurl.com/y8s5edrs Articles on Researchgate: https://tinyurl.com/yaujlfk8 -- A HUGE THANK YOU TO MY PATRONS: KARIN LIETZCKE, ANN BLANCHETTE, JUNOS, SCIMED, PER HELGE HAAKSTD LARSEN, LAU GUERREIRO, RUI BELEZA, MIGUEL ESTRADA, ANTÓNIO CUNHA, CHANTEL GELINAS, JIM FRANK, JERRY MULLER, FRANCIS FORD, AND HANS FREDRIK SUNDE! I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018: https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo And check out my playlists on: PSYCHOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/ybalf8km PHILOSOPHY: https://tinyurl.com/yb6a7d3p ANTHROPOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/y8b42r7g
It’s time for Inside the Capitol…your weekly legislative update from the League of Oregon Cities…and now, for a look at what’s happening this week in Salem here is LOC Lobbyist, Wendy Johnson. Here are links to the items that Wendy mentioned on this week’s episode: HB 5006, HB 5030, HB 2377, HB 5005, HB 2445, HB 2164, HB 2005, HB 3273, SB 558, HB 2001, HB 2003 and HB 2420. Watch live and archived legislative video here and find the latest LOC Bulletin here.
It’s time for Inside the Capitol…your weekly legislative update from the League of Oregon Cities…and now, for a look at what’s happening this week in Salem here is LOC Lobbyist, Wendy Johnson. Here are links to the items that Wendy mentioned on this week’s episode: SB 1049, HB 2005, HB 2016, HB 2174, HB 2408 and HB 2184. Watch live and archived legislative video here and find the latest LOC Bulletin here.
For immediate release: April 17, 2019 League of Oregon Cities (LOC) Calls for PERS Relief for All Employers Salem, OR— The League of Oregon Cities (LOC) is calling for action this legislative session to address rising Public Employee Retirement System (PERS) rates for all covered public employers. The plan proposed by Governor Brown to the Legislature on Friday, April 12 directed all benefits towards education interests. In her comments, Governor Brown stated that if action isn’t taken to address the looming pension crisis the Hillsboro School District will see rates increase to more than 30 percent of payroll. The City of Hillsboro and the other 240 cities in Oregon will experience a similar fate without state action and assistance. Revenues Not Keeping Pace The revenue side of the balance sheet is simply not keeping pace with the expenditure side for cities. For example, despite rapid growth, the city of Warrenton, has seen only a modest increase ($45,000) in property tax revenues, while PERS costs have increased dramatically ($135,000). With limited options for increasing revenues and no relief for PERS rate increases in sight, many cities, including Warrenton, will have to cut services to balance budgets. “We see this time and again with cities,” said LOC’s Scott Winkels. “Revenues are capped either constitutionally or cut by the Legislature, but costs are unlimited and eventually city services suffer.” How to Mitigate These Challenges The LOC is calling on the Legislature and Governor Brown to take the following steps to address the problem: Don’t make the ledger imbalance worse. The League is calling on the Legislature and Governor Brown to pledge not to inflict any additional unfunded costs on cities. Capitalize the Employer Incentive Fund (EIF) that was created in the 2018 short session. That program was intended to provide a 25% state match to new cash contributions government employers make to their side accounts, which allows employers to pre-pay their pension costs and reduce their rates and long-term liability. While the fund was created at the urging of Governor Brown, it was not funded in her budget or in the PERS plan presented on April 12. We are asking for $400 million for the incentive this session. Apply proposed tiered employee contribution requirements system-wide. The plan outlined by Governor Brown included the partial shifting of employee contributions away from their deferred compensation plan towards their defined benefit pension. However, the presentation did not make clear if that was to apply only to school employees or to state and local government employees system-wide. We are, asking Governor Brown to make clear that all employees should contribute to their pension costs going forward. Do not cut any existing state-shared revenue with cities, include cities in distributions when raising surcharges and other taxes/fees, and do not impose new tax/fee preemptions on cities. The current surcharge on liquor isn’t included in state shared revenues, but the state preempts cities from imposing their own taxes on alcohol to address local costs. This is just one example where the state could help its own situation and the plight of local governments. Finally, we need to change the dynamic. It’s time to recognize that all levels of government provide vital services, that we are partners, and that solutions to our shared problems should be inclusive. ### For more information, press only: Scott Winkels, 503-720-8384, swinkels@orcities.org (PERS questions) Wendy Johnson, 503-540-6585, wjohnson@orcities.org (Revenue questions) Kevin Toon, 503-540-6565, ktoon@orcities.org (Communications Director)
It’s time for Inside the Capitol…your weekly legislative update from the League of Oregon Cities…and now, for a look at what’s happening this week in Salem here is LOC Lobbyist, Wendy Johnson. Here are links to the items that Wendy mentioned on this week’s episode: SB 108, HB 2408, HB 2001, HB 2003, SB 10, SB 726, SB 479, SB 383 and HB 2184 LOC Bulletin from March 29, 2019
On this episode, LOC lobbyist Wendy Johnson discusses part one of the League’s second legislative priority, Revenue Reform and Cost Containment. For cities, revenue reform is focused on property tax reform. Property taxes are the largest source of revenue for cities, with $1.39 billion collected in FY 2017-18. The League’s ultimate goal is a constitutional referral to voters and a companion bill that makes statutory changes to reform the property tax system. Show note links: Wendy’s email address 2017-18 Oregon Department of Revenue Property taxes statistics
On this special Father’s Day edition of For the Love of Wisdom, we are joined by special guest Wendy Johnson of https://www.wendygphoto.com/ as we discuss the wisdom of paternity. We take a look at how being a father is one of the greatest callings and responsibilities that a human being could have in this life. Psalm 127:3-5 (ESV): Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate. Our recommended book of the week is Be Different by John Elder Robison. Download the free audiobook today at http://audibletrial.com/LoveWisdom Theme song written by Jason C. Johnson and Jasmine Harris (Juicy Jazzo). Featuring DeAnna Dixon on the chorus. More music by JC Johnson can be found at www.soundcloud.com/johnsoniantheory/sets/dmvoh-acoustic-sessions. For more from JC Johnson including exclusive music, blog posts, and more visit his website at https://johnsoniantheory.wordpress.com Theme music produced by BenJamin Banger. For exclusive music by BenJamin Banger you can reach him on Instagram: @BenJaminBanger or at his website: http://smarturl.it/hjfi20 Background music produced by Ryan Little, Audio Binger, Daniel Birch, Yung Kartz, and Benjamin Banger. More of their music can be heard on SoundCloud at @danielbirch @iamryanlittle @yungkartz and @benjamin-banger and @audiobinger
Wendy Johnson is a farmer from Charles City, Iowa. She was born and raised on a farm a few miles from where she lives today. She left the rural life when she was 18 for the big city thinking she'd never return, but 18 years later, she returned to her roots, living in her grandparents home and working the land that they once did. During those 18 years, she went to college, traveled the world, made Los Angeles her home, worked in the fashion industry, and most importantly discovered food.Wendy also works on her family farm with her dad, Erwin. Her dad is a 3rd generation farmer and grows conventional corn and soybeans. She works with him, learning how to manage a commodity crop farm, while she discovers alternative ways to be more environmentally and economically sustainable. She is using the small acreage that she rents from her family farm to incubate her ideas and try methods of production in hopes to expand.Wendy is on the cover of a book called "Women and the Land" by Barbara Hall and photographer Kathryn Gamble (Icecube Press) and has a chapter in the book along with 24 other women involved in agriculture around Iowa. You can buy the book now on Amazon.Find out more about Wendy and her farm at WWW.JOIAFOODFARM.COM
Roshi Joan Halifax is joined by Wendy Johnson at Upaya Zen Center for a conversation about grounding ourselves in the roots of our practice.
Wendy Johnson and Johnny Rafkin of Joia Food Farm. This week on the show, On-Farm was back on the road, this time stopping at Joia Food Farm near Charles City to talk to PFI Board Vice President Wendy Johnson. Wendy and her husband Johnny own and operate the farm, where they raise a little of everything, from chickens and turkeys to pigs and sheep to organic row crops, and diversity is a tenet of their farm operation. They not only have a diversity of crops and livestock, but they feed their animals diverse feeds. Subscribe: iTunes | Stitcher | Google Play Music On August 3rd, Wendy and Johnny will be hosting a field day on their farm focused on conservation – addressing both in-field issues like cover crops and “farmed potholes” (low lying wet areas) – and edge-of-field conservation practices, like grassed waterways and riparian buffers. With all of these topics, they we will discuss how farmers can find a balance between environmental and economic goals. The post On-Farm, Episode 010: Wendy Johnson – Joia Food Farm appeared first on Practical Farmers of Iowa.
Indigenous scholar and activist Melissa Nelson and Zen teacher Wendy Johnson discuss ecological knowledge and how to listen to the land.
A conversation about technology adoption with Wendy Johnson and Brian McCornack of Kansas State University, authors of "Getting Growers to Go Digital: The Power of a Positive User Experience" in the Journal of Extension.
In this podcast, I chat with beginning farmer Wendy Johnson who moved back to Iowa from L.A. to farm with her parents in Northeast Iowa raising corn, soybeans, hay and sheep. She and her husband have started their own enterprise, Joia Food Farm.
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For a Sunday out on the farm, enjoy the 27th annual Harvest Fair. In this podcast episode, Wendy Johnson, the executive director of the Fair's organizer -- Friends of the Farms -- is here to tell us about it. It's on Sunday September 28 from 11am to 5pm at the Johnson Farm, on Miller Bay Rd south of High School Rd. Imagine an event with treats like these: - Listen to six live local bands - Enjoy apple cider fresh from the fair orchard - Shop at the farm stand for fresh, local produce - Attend a seminar on local food topics - Enjoy yummy food with a focus on “local” - Talk with local master gardeners - Sample local beverages at the beer and wine garden - Take a tractor or horse-drawn wagon ride - Enter the pie contest (enter by 11:30 pm) - For children: Enjoy pony rides, face painting, and ride the land slide - Join in the Friends of the Farms raffle to win great prizes - Or simply take in seven hours of sumptuous local food and music while sitting on a hay bale, enjoying a beautiful day in the country Think about the history of this Johnson Farm event. In 1888, Andrew Johnson purchased 80 acres of farmland on Island Center Hill that produced vegetables, fruit and butter for local residents. Mr. Johnson successfully operated the farm from through the early-20th century. After World War II, his son Harvey introduced grapes, fruits, nut orchards and beekeeping. When Harvey died, neighbors collaborated with the City of Bainbridge Island and the Trust for Public Land to purchase nearly 15 of those acres to preserve them for public agricultural purposes. Sponsors for the event include: Mercury Michael - Bainbridge Homes; Brown Bear Car Wash; Island Cool Frozen Yogurt; Riddell Williams; Ace Hardware; Bainbridge Gardens; Guy Dunn; and local farms: Bainbridge Vineyards, Butler Green Farms, Laughing Crow Farm, and Heyday Farm. Diane Landry and the team from the Sustainable Bainbridge Zero Waste project will be on hand to help everyone compost and recycle, to keep the farmland attractive. The Johnson Farm is at the intersection of Miller Bay Road and Johnsonville Road, one-quarter mile south of the western end of High School Road. See: https://www.google.com/maps/@47.632297,-122.554227,18z For more information, viist the Friends of the Farms website at http://friendsofthefarms.org/what-we-do/harvest-fair-2 Credits: BCB host and editor: Barry Peters; BCB intro music: Tim Bird; BCB ferry music: Dogfish Bay Studios; BCB podcast art: artopia creative
Wendy Johnson is the founder of the organic farm and garden program at Green Gulch at the San Francisco Zen Center. She is a lay dharma teacher and author of Gardening at the Dragon's Gate. Wendy is a garden mentor to the Edible Schoolyard program and a College of Marin instructor in the Environmental Landscape program at the Indian Valley Organic Farm and Garden project. She speaks to us of how mother earth feeds us—perfectly.
In today's episode, it's time to catch up on the knitted projects. Plus, an essay by British writer and Druid, Nimue Brown.Shownotes: News & Noteworthy:-contest draw (yarn or spinning fibre) winner - Jennifer, Naamah13. For “On and Off the Needles”:“Off” Projects only today:Irish Coffee, by Thea ColmanYarn: Madelinetosh Chunky, 100% SW merino, aran weight, colourway “Rambler”.Telemark Pullover, by Erika FloryYarn: Gaia's Colours, Pales Twisty DK, colourway “Azur-Ava”.Rae scarf, by Jane Richmond Yarn: Purple Label MCN fingering by Tanis Fiber Arts, in the “Autumn Sun” colourway (September 2011 sock club yarn).Diagonal Lace socks, by Wendy Johnson Yarn: Skinny Bugga, 80/10/10 true fingering, by Sanguine Gryphon, in muted rainbow colourway “Frog-legged Leaf Beetle”. Sedum cardigan, by Jane RichmondYarn: Bernat Roving (single-ply bulky, 80% acrylic/20% wool) in “putty” colourway.A Test knit unnamed cardigan by Carol Feller, to be released next year. Made the one-year sizeYarn: Berocco Vintage Chunky in a pale bright green.Ameliorate fingerless mitts, by Hunter HammersenYarn: Gaia's Colours Fibre Arts, Silkie Sock in the colourway “Lolita”.Hacky Sack Hoodie, by Stef Pulford from the Son of Stitch n' Bitch bookYarn: Cascade Eco Wool, deep charcoal gray, 100% wool. Color Affection, by Vera ValimakiYarn: Fiberphile yarns, MCN luxe sock, 375yards/343metres, in “Stardust” and “Honey Amber”, and Earthly Hues Seedlings sock yarn (MCN), 375yards/343metres) in “Sunshine”.Song - Sora, “Heartwood”The Pagan Corner:Nimue Brown's essay - “Ancestors of Yarn”"I'm not sure when humans started spinning wool from fleece, but it goes back a long way into our history as a species, I assume to our first settling as farmers rather than being nomadic hunter gatherers. Yarn has played a significant part of life since then, as clothing and bedding, decoration, comfort, and art form. It's also traditionally a very female activity, in the western world, although I believe in South America knitting is one of those hard core macho things that men get together to do. Which goes to show that like most gender things it actually has more to do with culture than physicality.Our female ancestors then, for most of human history, were involved with yarn. A woman might be buried with her distaff even. Spinning, weaving, making and mending are traditional women's work. The methods we have, from the spindle and spinning wheels to knitting and crochet also connect us to the people who invented, developed and perfected them. Like so many of our ancestors, the yarn innovators are largely unknown, and there were probably a great many of them.Every woman who passes down this skill to a girl, is part of a huge web of weaving tradition. I learned knitting from my mother, crotchet from the mother of a boyfriend, spinning from several friends, although I'm not very good at it! I learned naalbinding (which might not be how you spell it!) to make traditional Viking socks, which take forever but are stunningly substantial. The wool work doesn't come alone though. Alongside it come the tales of other knitters and crafters, family myths and anecdotes. While the hands are busy, the mind has plenty of room to wander.I find wool work incredibly soothing. If I'm rattled, my mind in chaos and my body weary, then to sit down with wool is one of the best therapies. The rhythm of it is innately soothing. Watching small pieces of creativity form between my fingers is affirming, settling. The stories and inspiration of other wool workers are very much with me, and I feel part of something much bigger than I am. There's a power in weaving, knitting, spinning – the power to take the raw materials of nature and fashion them into something essential for life in a cold climate. Wool for our ancestors must have contributed to survival, a vital part of culture that made human life viable in tough locations.I heard a story once, that Arran sweaters have complex designs because each family had its own pattern. The women made them so that if a drowned sailor washed ashore, they could figure out who he was, who his people were. I can't imagine making a jumper for my man that would mark him as mine in case he died, that must take a certain kind of pragmatic courage.Modern life is full of things that claim to be convenient, but that take far more from us than they give. I know a lot of women who are returning to wool, or learning it anew, because it makes sense to them on an emotional level as well as a practical one. Being able to do the essential things of life matters and in turn makes your life feel more real. Ancestral pursuits like this bring a sense of stability, rootedness and belonging. We need that. In cultures full of uprooted people, in times where continuity and certainty are hard to come by, reaching back into the past makes a lot of sense. The ancestors are all there, behind us. A sense of belonging is a precious thing to have when everything else feels a bit fragile and uncertain. Between climate change and the world economies, and the insane priorities of politicians, life for any aware person is not comfortable, even in our relatively insulated western world.The wool tribe is there, for anyone willing to pick up the threads and find out how to make them. Your grandmothers will have done it, and your great grandmothers. The odds are you had some distant grandfathers who kept or sheared sheep, too. Go back far enough and most of us have that, in fact. The threads of wool can also be threads of continuity, safety lines to remind us of where we came from and how we connect to the other creatures, and to the earth. We can bind our own stories into the wool."Anyone interested in a deeper look at ancestry, from an overtly Druid perspective, is invited to pick up a copy of Nimue's new book, Druidry and the Ancestors. She blogs most days at Druidlife
Getting over Bronchitis so did not podcast right after the Steeler game...! We lost but better luck next year! Knitting on the same projects Diamonds and cables sock from Socks From the Toe Up for EveryBody by Wendy Johnson using Gloss in Cosmos colorway/ Going to cast on a cowl, I think, from Ravelry library, for my handspun Crown Mountain Fibers January colorway Celtic Glow. What a great spin that was. It was a South African Top from their Fiber Club. I can't wait until my March selection arrives. I am still working on Cluny leaves while tatting the Gloria pattern from Iris Niebach. I am getting better at I also talked about my finds from Pittsburgh Knit and Crochet Fiber Festival. I will post pipictures later because I forgot to take them for this week. I also got two new spindles...One I sadly can not remember the maker of but love it. and the other is a Jonathan Bosworth..yummy Until next time...happy crafting PS...I forgot to include the review of Rita Buchanan's DVD How I Spin...LOVED it and will review next 'cast!!..Just a tease!! Arlene
For those of you who do not care about football, cover your ears because I am screaming "Steelers Going to the SUPER BOWL!! Yeah!! I was intended to podcast last weekend but realized it was a football game and so...NO...no podcast for you!! Sooooorrrrrrryyyyyyy! It was a grreat game and I am very excited for them. I do hope WE win but I am not sure. I do have lucky socks so that should definitely help, right? I finished the Wendy Johnson socks..Heart to Heart socks in the red. Now I am working on the Diamonds and Cables Socks in a purple Knit Picks Gloss as seen on the right. I am very much enjoying these patterns and will no doubt do more from this book. I will say the only thing I truly dislike is Short-Row heels...ick..but practice makes perfect. Tatting, I finally sewed on the edging to the hanky that DD gave me. I currently have allowed it to live under a glass (EAPG) bowl made by my GrandFathers old place of employ. It really looks nice there for now. The old antique bowl with a vintage hanky. What could be better? This month I will be working on hearts from Ruffled Heart Pattern Vicki Clarke Tat's Amore, Martha Ess scroll down the page Tatting Hearts, Teri Dusenbury this is an Amazon site. Spinning, I reviewed Drafting: The Long and Short of It, Abby Franqemont Interweave site Next "cast I will review How I Spin, Rita Buchanan also at Interweave Until then....Enjoy
Welcome to our Episode 30 of our podcast in which we talked about . . . * Uptown Boot Socks * Lizard Ridge Blanket * Shrug This * Knotty Gloves * The Loopy Ewe’s Spring Fling 2009 * Wendy Johnson’s “Socks From the Toe Up ” book * Cookie A’s “Sock Innovation ” book * [...]
Wendy Johnson is a Buddhist meditation teacher and organic gardening mentor who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the author of Gardening at the Dragon's Gate: At Work in the Wild and Cultivated World. You can find out more about Wendy, her book and where she'll be speaking next at www.gardeningatthedragonsgate.com
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