The One-Straw Revolution (New York Review Books Classics)

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Enough bashing of the book - what saves it is the Zen component, because that's actually interesting. My farming ways (A lecture at the "Reflecting on modern-day farming ways and considering the future of farming" seminar)]. Cooperative Research Institute Monthly Report (in Japanese). Cooperative Research Institute (214): 19–36. July 1971. ISSN 0914-1758 . Retrieved 9 April 2011.

Natural Farming, and the Developing World Fukuoka, Natural Farming, and the Developing World

Children have an innate interest in nature and the method of creating clay seed balls and scattering them in desertified and damaged lands could be seen as great fun. Sowing seeds in the desert could easily be embedded in school science programs, as a kind of experiment. Revegetation could be seen not as ‘work’ but as ‘play’ and also ‘research.’ Such a project could be an opportunity for learning for students on a wide array of subjects: from biodiversity and ecological inter-connectedness to plant biology. And ultimately the seeds that such projects would sow within the children’s hearts might be the most fruitful of all.Seedballs are made from mixture of clay, compost, and seeds. Each of these materials need to be processed to ensure that the clay and compost are relatively fine textured, and that the seeds are winnowed to remove hulls and casing. Parnwell, Michael J.G. (2005). "The Power to Change: Rebuilding Sustainable Livelihoods in North-East Thailand" (PDF). Journal of Transdisciplinary Environmental Studies. UK: Department of East Asian Studies, University of Leeds. 4 (2): 1–21. ISSN 1602-2297. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-04-22 . Retrieved 2013-01-01.

One-straw Revolution, by Masanobu Fukuoka. English The One-straw Revolution, by Masanobu Fukuoka. English

One-Straw Revolution_ is one of the founding documents of the alternative food movement, and indispensable to anyone hoping to understand the future of food and agriculture."—Michael Pollan Agriculture: A Fundamental Principle, Hanley Paul. Journal of Bahá'í Studies Vol. 3, number 1, 1990. First, combine all the dry ingredients (clay, compost, and seed) together in a large flat tray, and thoroughly mix.This shows the trajectory of current and expected yield in the solid dots and the straight lines after 2010. The dashed line in the gray area shows the yield growth we actually need to feed a growing human population. In other words, we need to roughly double yield growth in most plants, mankind's growth is outpacing the growth of our plants. I am a firm believer that understanding and obeying nature are essential steps towards fulfillment on both individual and social levels, and this book gives expression to that belief better than any I have ever read. Mr. Fukuoka's essential question that took him 30 years to answer is "What is the natural pattern?" Of course, the medium through which he seeks this answer is agriculture in Japan. While there are parts of the book that go into details of agriculture, most of the book is an analogy for whatever medium you work through to answer the big question. Even though it is the same quarter acre, the farmer must grow his crops differently each year in accordance with variations in weather, insect populations, the condition of the soil, and many other natural factors. Nature is everywhere in perpetual motion; conditions are never exactly the same in any two years. Only the ignorant could write off Fukuoka, who died two years ago at the age of 95, as a deluded or nostalgic dreamer...Fukuoka developed ideas that went against the conventional grain....Long before the American Michael Pollan, he was making the connections between intensive agriculture, unhealthy eating habits and a whole destructive economy based on oil." --Harry Eyres, The Financial Times