Fukuoka Sensei experimented for years on his small farm, slowly pruning out all the practices of farming that have been thought necessary for millenia. The result is a naturally harmonious and productive way of farming that he calls, with the humility of a true Zen master, Do-Nothing Farming.

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Sep.] – The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming, translators Chris Pearce, Tsune Kurosawa and Larry Korn, Rodale Press. Seed Bombs: A Guide to Their Various Forms and Functions. On Guerilla Gardening.org (English) (Retrieved 25 May 2011) Friedrich, Theodor and Kienzle, Josef (2008) Conservation Agriculture: Impact on farmers' livelihoods, labour, mechanization and equipment; in: Stewart, B.I., Asfary, A.F., Belloum, A. Steiner, K., Friedrich, T. (eds): Conservation Agriculture for Sustainable Land Management to Improve the Livelihood of People in Dry Areas; Proceedings of an international workshop, 7–9 May 2007 in Damascus, Syria, Damascus/Syria, pp 25-36.In 1940, Fukuoka married his wife Ayako, and they had five children together. After World War II, his father lost most of the family lands in postwar land reform and was left with three-eighths of an acre of rice land and the hillside citrus orchards his son had taken over before the war. Despite these circumstances, in 1947 he took up natural farming again with success, using no-till farming methods to raise rice and barley. He wrote his first book, Mu 1: The God Revolution, or Mu 1: Kami no Kakumei ( 無〈1〉神の革命) in Japanese, during the same year, and worked to spread word of the benefits of his methods and philosophy. His later book, The One-Straw Revolution, was published in 1975 and translated into English in 1978.

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Fukuoka applied similar principles to the growing of various orchard fruits and vegetables: in fact, he went one step further with vegetables by interplanting them in the grass beneath the orchard trees and even on the mountainside (“growing vegetables like wild plants”). Natural farming today Rosset, P. (2000). Lessons from the Green Revolution. Oakland: Food First [online]. Available from: http://www.foodfirst.org/media/opeds/2000/4-greenrev.html Shizen Nōhō: Wara Ippon no Kakumei ( 自然農法-わら一本の革命, 1975, in Japanese). Translated and reinterpretated in 1978 under the title The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming.Fukuoka, M. (1996/2012). Sowing Seeds in the Desert (L. Korn, Ed. & Trans.). White River Junction, Vermont: Chelsea Green Publishing. Modern scientific agriculture, on the other hand, has no such vision. Research wanders about aimlessly, each researcher seeing just one part of the infinite array of natural factors which affect harvest yields. Fukuoka called his agricultural philosophy shizen nōhō ( 自然農法), most commonly translated into English as " natural farming". [18] It is also referred to as "the Fukuoka Method", "the natural way of farming" or "Do-Nothing Farming".

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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. Masanobu Fukuoka ( Japanese: 福岡 正信, Hepburn: Fukuoka Masanobu, 2 February 1913 – 16 August 2008) was a Japanese farmer and philosopher celebrated for his natural farming and re-vegetation of desertified lands. He was a proponent of no-till, herbicide and pesticide free cultivation methods from which he created a particular method of agriculture, commonly referred to as "natural farming" or "do-nothing farming". [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] Dec.] – The Natural Way Of Farming - The Theory and Practice of Green Philosophy, translator Frederic P. Metreaud, published by Japan Publications. ISBN 978-0-87040-613-3 Mr. Fukuoka rails against chemical fertilizers and insecticides as "the most inept way to deal with problems such as these, and will only lead to greater problems in the future." Again, this is perfectly analogous to teaching methods that scare students away from valuing what they already know to solve academic problems and into memorizing knowledge and methods that are not intuitive or understood at any deep level. This leads to low self esteem and creates dependence on a teacher for further learning, leaving them stunted when such a teacher is not around. In 1988, Fukuoka received the Visva-Bharati University's Desikottam Award [23] as well as the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service in the Philippines, [24] often considered "Asia's Nobel Prize". [25]That is the scariest graph we have in my field, and it doesn't even account for yield losses due to climate change (more extreme weather changes, more extreme weather events etc, (but it also doesn't account for positive changes - less reliance on meat would free up quite a lot of water and grains). I would suggest that on this issue Fukuoka greatly under-estimates the pull that modernity exerts over all of us, including farmers. In my experience in India, the majority of people in the countryside are looking for pathways out of agriculture. We need to accept this fact to move forward. Mu 1: Kami no Kakumei ( 無1　神の革命), self-published; republished by Shunjūsha, 1985. ISBN 978-4-393-74111-5 Masanobu Fukuoka was born in 1914 in a small farming village on the island of Shikoku in Southern Japan. He was educated in microbiology and worked as a soil scientist specializing in plant pathology, but at the age of twenty-five he began to have doubts about the "wonders of modern agriculture science."

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This section contains information of unclear or questionable importance or relevance to the article's subject. Please help improve this section by clarifying or removing indiscriminate details. Non-important content should likely be moved to another article or removed. ( June 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Both the clay and the compost may need to be sifted to achieve the desired result. For those familiar with making earthen plasters, the sieves used for that are generally well suited to making seedballs. The ingredients are the same, but the methods differ in their speed and precision. I will be describing the second method using the flat tray. Linking foresight and sustainability: An integral approach. Joshua Floyd, Kipling Zubevich Strategic Foresight Program and National Centre for Sustainability, Swinburne University of Technology