![]() ![]() Even if the types of crops he is using might not grow everywhere, the princiles of succesion planting, no tilling, and irrigating would work everywhere. This way we learn the basic prinsiples of observing nature and copying what works, trying things out and adjusting to make it work. He takes us trough his thoughts and trails and errors on the way to creating his farm. This also lays the foundations for his holistic approach to farming – natural farming. The book is not only about farming, it is both philosofical and spiritual. This is also where he returned after he had a profound spiritual insight, that made him turn his back on the scientific world he had been working in. He was born and raised on the Japanese island of Shikoku. His book The one-straw Revolution is an interesting book about the thoughts and insights that led him to farming in a different way. Many of the principles we know from permaculture, comes from his ground breaking work. Masanobu’s farming philosophy resonates around the world and is a torch that shines a light 1000 years into the future. So we could say that he in many ways is the father of permaculture. Author of The One-Straw Revolution, The Natural Way of Farming, and Sowing Seeds in the Desert, and the 1988 winner of the Ramon Magsaysay Award. Masanobu Fukuoka was one of the first people to actually do farming in a permaculture sense, and he did so before permaculture was put into the system it is today. ![]()
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