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Call it “Zen and the Art of Farming” or a “Little Green Book,” Masanobu Fukuoka’s manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative... read more
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Characters/People edit
- M. Fukuoka: Visonary farmer/author.
- Masanobu Fukuoka: A pioneer in the development of sustainable agricultural practices.
Setting & Locations edit
First Sentence edit
I believe that a revolution can begin from this one strand of straw.
Table of Contents edit
Introduction
Preface
Editor's Instruction
Notes on the Translation
I - Part One
1. Look at this Grain
2. Nothing at All
3. Returning to the Country
4. Towards a Do-Nothing Farming
5. Returning to the Source
6. One Reason Natural Farming Has Not Spread
II - Part Two
1. Four Principles of Natural Farming
2. Farming Among the Weeds
3. Farming with Straw
4. Growing Rice in a Dry Field
5. Orchard Trees
6. Orchard Earth
7. Growing Vegetables like Wild Plants
8. The Terms for Abandoning Chemicals
9. Limits of the Scientific Method
III - Part Three
1. One Farmer Speaks Out
2. A Modest Solution to a Difficult Problem
3. The Fruit of Hard Times
4. The Marketing of Natural Food
5. Commercial Agriculture Will Fail
6. Research for Whose Benefit
7. What is Human Food ?
8. A Merciful Death for Barley
9. Simply Serve Nature and All is Well
10. Various Schools of Natural Farming
IV - Part Four
1. Confusion About Food
2. Nature’s Food Mandala
3. The Culture of Food
4. Living by Bread Alone
5. Summing up Diet
6. Food and Farming
V - Part Five
1. Foolishness Comes out Looking Smart
2. Who is the Fool ?
3. I Was Born to Go to Nursery School
4. Drifting Clouds and the Illusion of Science
5. The Theory of Relativity
6. A Village Without War and Peace
7. The One-Straw Revolution
Authors & Contributors edit
- Masanobu Fukoka (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: Japanese
Publisher: Rodale Press
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1978
ISBN: 0878572201
Page Count: 226
Publisher: Rodale Press
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1978
ISBN: 0878572201
Page Count: 226
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- Dewey: 631.584
Subjects edit
- Books › Professional & Technical › Professional Science › Earth Sciences › Environmental Science
- Books › Science › Earth Sciences › Environmental Science
- Books › Professional & Technical › Professional Science › Agricultural Sciences
- Books › Outdoors & Nature › Environment
- Books › Science › Agricultural Sciences
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