Alan Chadwick

Alan Chadwick (July 27, 1909 – May 25, 1980) an English master gardener, was a leading innovator of organic farming techniques^[1][2] and influential educator in the field of biodynamic/French intensive gardening. He was a student of Rudolf Steiner^[3][4] and is often cited^[5] as inspirational to the development of the "California cuisine" movement. The Chadwick restaurant in Beverly Hills was named after him.^[6] His grave is marked by a stupa at the Green Gulch Farm Zen Center in California.^{[citation needed]} Chadwick is the subject of a 2013 retrospective by a former University of California, Santa Cruz, professor, Paul Lee, called There Is a Garden in the Mind: A Memoir of Alan Chadwick and the Organic Movement in California.^[7]