Fukuoka - The One Straw Revolution and The Natural Way of Farming

"The One-Straw Revolution is one of the founding documents of the alternative food movement, and indispensable to anyone hoping to understand the future of food and agriculture."—Michael Pollan

Masanobu Fukuoka (1913-2008) was a farmer and philosopher who was born and raised on the Japanese island of Shikoku. He studied plant pathology and spent several years working as a customs inspector in Yokohama. While working there, at the age of 25, he had an inspiration that changed his life. He decided to quit his job, return to his home village and put his ideas into practice by applying them to agriculture.

Over the next 65 years he worked to develop a system of natural farming that demonstrated the insight he was given as a young man, believing that it could be of great benefit to the world. He did not plow his fields, used no agricultural chemicals or prepared fertilizers, did not flood his rice fields as farmers have done in Asia for centuries, and yet his yields equaled or surpassed the most productive farms in Japan.

Included 3 texts in English:

The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka

The Natural Way of Farming - The Theory and Practice of Green Philosophy by Masanobu Fukuoka

How to Grow Winter Wheat? The Fukuoka-Bonfils Method - Ileia Newsletter, Dec. 2000 - adapted from Marc Bonfils