Reviewing the book The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka, a Japanese farmer who developed his method of “do-nothing” or natural farming over 30 years, from the 1940’s to 70’s. He set out to prove a spiritual revelation that human knowledge amounted to nothing by forgoing such modern farming methods as tilling, pesticides and fertilizers to produce the same amount of food with much less labor, by working with nature. I found the book inspiring and thought-provoking, and feel it can serve as a philosophical underpinning to my farming endeavor, which might be closer to becoming a reality (updates in this episode)!

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