The Enchanted Gardener Comes to Montecito
by Paul Froemming, July 1999

Do you remember, a lifetime ago, when Nat King Cole had a hit song called "Nature Boy"? It told about "a strange, enchanted boy" who wandered far, very far, and when he met you, he taught you many things.

Well, I've met that boy, or someone very much like him, and he is now a man known as the Enchanted Gardener. Our encounter took place, appropriately amid the beautiful gardens of Casa de Maria, at the top o El Bosque Road in Motecito. The occasion was the Summer Health Classic Conference, which comes to Montecito every year. On the schedule was a session with the Enchanted Gardener. Strolling onto the patio with a fresh cup of herbal tea in hand, I pulled up a chair and joined his circle. I may never be the same.

The speaker was an energetic man in a blue jumpsuit, surrounded by living plants. Leslie Goldman, the Enchanted Gardener, is a nationally recognized speaker who, for 18 years, has been teaching how to grow the Enchanted Garden, his name for a new, reborn Mother Earth.

Soon he is leading the group in writing down seeds o dreams we want to see grow in our lives. He symbolizes these by having each of us plant a smooth, round seed of Job's Tears into fresh earth. We receive a second see to plant at home.

"Through flowers, live herbs, and whole foods present and circulating through our daily lives," Leslie tells us, "we can help the world grow healthy and beautiful from the ground up. The earth can become an enchanted gardener."

On The Healing Journey

Leslie Goldman moves with joyful energy with with stiffness in his upper body. He has to recline backwards to sit in an ordinary chair. This man who travels widely, teaching, gardens, and happily dances was once severely crippled by an arthritic condition known as ankylosing spondilis, which greatly immobilized his joints.

Books for the Healing of Mother Earth

Leslie Goldman, Your Enchanted Gardener new found mobility for life has inspired him to write three books and move them on toward publication.

Plant Your Dream! is a book of poetry and life wisdom; Joe The Farmer is the true story of a family of organic farmers; When I Touch You is an invitation to experience more pleasure. Plant Your Dream! with a foreword (note ) by Mark Victor Hansen, describers the organic steps to grow an Enchanted Garden and become an Enchanted Gardener yourself.

One of Leslie's many skills is teaching Feng Shui, the Chinese art of harmoniously arranging surroundings. (Ha!) He used Feng Shui when he places gift sees in bright red envelopes.

When I drive home, there are books and articles waiting to be written. Forsaking these for the moment, I garden in my yard for the next two days, arranging my living space in harmony.

Suddenly I realize that all of this is because I met up with the Enchanted Gardener, and joined his vision, and what's more, his family From a bright red envelope, I take the shiny round seed he gave me. I place it in a fresh new garden, pressing it into the warm, moist earth. As Leslie Goldman would say, "TodayI am planting my dream! Today I am planting a beautiful tomorrow!"

 

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