The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming The One-Straw Revolution-An Introduction to Natural Farming

The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming by Masanobu Fukuoka (Author), Larry Korn (Introduction), Wendell Berry (Foreword). Name it “Zen and the Artwork of Farming” or a “Little Green Book,” Masanobu Fukuoka’s manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical problem to the worldwide programs we depend on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose revolutionary system of cultivating the earth reflects a deep faith within the wholeness and stability of the natural world. As Wendell Berry writes in his preface, the ebook “is effective to us as a result of it is at once sensible and philosophical. It’s an inspiring, mandatory e book about agriculture as a result of it isn’t just about agriculture.”

Trained as a scientist, Fukuoka rejected both trendy agribusiness and centuries of agricultural observe, deciding instead that the best types of cultivation mirror nature’s own laws. Over the subsequent three many years he perfected his so-called “do-nothing” method: commonsense, sustainable practices that each one however eliminate the use of pesticides, fertilizer, tillage, and perhaps most significantly, wasteful effort.

Whether you’re a guerrilla gardener or a kitchen gardener, devoted to gradual food or simply seeking to reside a more healthy life, you’ll find one thing here-it’s possible you’ll even be moved to begin a revolution of your own.

Fabulous book. Inspiring take a look at how to not fiddle with Mother Nature. Nature is not the enemy we have now been led to consider! I like this book, and it was one of many first to make an indelible impression about changing one’s philosophy of how one can possibly go about organic farming (I used to be an natural farmer afterward). Poses looking questions (and one man’s solutions) that every gardener and farmer ought to search for the answers to, relating to how a lot we need to intrude with natural processes to supply food. Also a thoughtful look at balancing dietary wants with what’s seasonally available. Important studying for anyone taken with permaculture, sustainable agriculture, or just a soul-lifting antidote to fashionable, corporate food production.

I read this ebook years in the past when it was first printed and it has been a magor affect on me and my gardens for all these years. I’ve adopted Fukoka’s ideas as much as closely I can dwelling in a metropolis and have had wonderful results. He’s right, let nature do the work. My garden is probably the most beautiful in the neighborhood, and without any pesticides, fertilizers, tilling, or backstrain. Buy this ebook, Gaia’s Backyard, and Forest Gardening. All of them follow the naturalistic, symbiotic, permaculture mode that mom nature has been evolving for a billion years – simply plug into the pure order and begin growing!

The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming

Masanobu Fukuoka (Author), Larry Korn (Introduction), Wendell Berry (Foreword)

226 pages

Rodale Press; 1st edition (May 1978)

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