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The One-Straw Revolution
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The Road Back to Nature: Regaining the Paradise Lost
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Natural Way of Farming: The Theory and Practice of Green
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Sowing seeds in the desert : natural farming, global restoration, and ultimate food security
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Masanobu Fukuoka (February 2, 1913 – August 16, 2008) author of The One-Straw Revolution, The Road Back to Nature and The Natural Way Of Farming, was one of the pioneers of no-till grain cultivation. His system is referred to as Fukuoka Farming, the Fukuoka Method or “do nothing” farming, a method for relying on the balance of the natural world to produce food while doing as little as possible to interfere with nature.
...if modern agriculture continues to follow the path it's on now, it's finished. The food-growing situation may seem to be in good shape today, but that's just an illusion based on the current availability of petroleum fuels. All the wheat, corn, and other crops that are produced on big American farms may be alive and growing, but they're not products of real nature or real agriculture. They're manufactured rather than grown. The earth isn't producing those things... petroleum is!
—Masanobu Fukuoka, Mother Earth News interview, 1982
...if modern agriculture continues to follow the path it's on now, it's finished. The food-growing situation may seem to be in good shape today, but that's just an illusion based on the current availability of petroleum fuels. All the wheat, corn, and other crops that are produced on big American farms may be alive and growing, but they're not products of real nature or real agriculture. They're manufactured rather than grown. The earth isn't producing those things... petroleum is!
—Masanobu Fukuoka, Mother Earth News interview, 1982
