One-Straw Revolutionary: The Philosophy and Work of Masanobu Fukuoka
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (563 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1603585303 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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Fukuoka on his visits to the United States in 1979 and 1986. He studied Asian history, soil science, and plant nutrition at the University of California, Berkeley, and has worked in wholesale and retail plant nurseries, as a soil scientist for the California Department of Forestry, and as a residential landscape contractor in the San Francisco Bay Area. He currently lives in Ashland, Oregon.. Fukuoka’s T
Fukuoka in Japan at the time, translated the manuscript and brought it to the United States, knowing it would change the conversation about food forever. Fukuoka to the United States on two six-week visits. One-Straw Revolutionary is the first book to look deeply at natural farming and intimately discuss the philosophy and work of Mr. Fukuoka during his visits to the United States, offers a rare, inside look at Mr. And he explains how natural farming can be used practically in areas other than agriculture, including personal growth and development. Readers will delight in this personal insight into one of the world’s leading agricultural thinkers.. The One-Straw Revolution, edited by Korn and Wendell Berry, was an immediate international success, and established Mr. Korn’s description of his time there, as well as traveling with Mr. Fukuoka’s natural farm. Fukuoka. Fukuoka as a leading voice in the fight against conventional industrial agriculture. In addition to giving his personal thoughts about natural farming, Korn broadens the discussion by pointing out natural farming’s kinship with the ways of indigenous cultures and traditional Japanese farming. The book follows the author on his travels from one back-to-the-land commune to another in the countryside of 1970s Ja
"This is the book we have been waiting for to" according to Charles Burr. This is the book we have been waiting for to fill in the continuum between modern agriculture, organics, permaculture, natural farming and indigenous tending the wild. Larry Korn is the only person who could write this book as the only person who has not only worked on Masanobu Fukuoka's farm, but also received his permaculture design certificate (PDC) from Bill Moll. Reconnecting With Nature Long, long ago, hip folks in the Beatles era were jabbering about Masanobu Fukuoka’s book, The One-Straw Revolution. It explained how he grew healthy food via natural farming, a low budget, low impact approach. On his farm in Japan, Fukuoka was growing grain, fruit, and vegetables without plowing, cultivating, chemicals, compost, fertilizer, fossil energy, eros. Only those of us fortunate enough to have read 'one straw revolution' Only those of us fortunate enough to have read 'one straw revolution', by Masanobu Fukuoka, can understand how truly blessed we are to have been granted access into the wonderful world of 'Natural farming'.We will be forever indebted to Sensei and Larry Korn for the wonderful journey that they were able to take us on.Now in his new book about Fukuoka-San, aptly named
Larry’s deep insight into Fukuoka-san’s Zen-like approach to farming threw a new light on the organic method of farming and gardening for me, as I was then an editor of Organic Gardening magazine. Through Larry, I was able to see that the question is not, ‘What can I do next?’ but rather, ‘What can I stop doing without diminishing the results?’ This impulse toward simplicity is the master’s great gift to the world, carried forth into the world by Larry