Masanobu Fukuoka
The One- Straw Revolution
An Introduction to Natural Farming
With a Preface by Wendell Berry
Edited by Larry Korn
RODALE PRESS: EMMAUS: 1978
Contents
Preface by Wendell Berry ix
Introduction by Larry Korn xv
Translator's Notes xxvii
I
Look at this Grain 1
Nothing at All 4
Returning to the Country ll
Toward a Do-Nothing Farming 15
Returning to the Source 19
One Reason Natural Farming Has Not Spread 22
Humanity Does Not Know Nature 25
II
Four Principles of Natural Farming 33
Farming Among the Weeds 41
Farming with Straw 47
Growing Rice in a Dry Field 53
Orchard Trees 58
Orchard Earth 61
Growing Vegetables like Wild Plants 65
The Terms for Abandoning Chemicals 70
Limits of the Scientific Method 74
III
One Farmer Speaks Out 79
A Modest Solution to a Difficult Problem 82
The Fruit of Hard Times 85
The Marketing of Natural Food 89
Commercial Agriculture Will Fail 92
Research for Whose Benefit? 96
What is Human Food? 99
A Merciful Death for Barley 105
Simply Serve Nature and All is Well ll1
Various Schools of Natural Farming ll5
IV
Confusion About Food 123
Nature's Food Mandala 127
The Culture of Food 134
Living by Bread Alone 139
Summing up Diet 142
Food and Farming 147
V
Foolishness Comes Out Looking Smart 151
Who is the Fool? 156
I Was Born to Go to Nursery School 160
Drifting Clouds and the Illusion of Science 164
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