Sowing Seeds in the Desert: Natural Farming, Global Restoration, and Ultimate Food Security
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (826 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1603584188 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 216 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Excellent Book" according to katheward. I was thrilled to see this book released. This book contains the last writings of Masanobu Fukuoka and they are about the desert regions of the world. I am from a long line of subsistence farmers on two continents and, as far as I know, the only one who has been a high desert grower. One Straw Revolution set my course as an ecological gardener/farmer in the high desert of CA over 25 years ago. This book is helping me realize why some of my experiments worked (and others didn't). To see desert lands addresse. was a little disappointed I was hoping for a little more how to was a little disappointed I was hoping for a little more how to and not so much his opinion .. Completing the Puzzle Charles Burr This book is terrific. A worthy follow-up to The One-Straw Revolution. Many of the thoughts expressed by author Masanobu Fukuoka in Sowing Seeds in the Desert are truly paradigm shifting. This book has the potential to redirect people's everyday and spiritual lives in a very positive direction. For those seeking to return to the center and become more grounded, start with this book. For those who have already read many, many books, I suggest you restart with this one. Sowing Seeds in the Desert picks up whe
He returned to his home village and applied this insight to developing a revolutionary new way of farming that he believed would be of great benefit to society. . One-Straw was a huge success in the West, and spoke directly to the growing movement of organic farmers and activists seeking a new way of life. Fukuoka spent years working with people and organizations in Africa, India, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the United States, to prove that you could, indeed, grow food and regenerate forests with very little irrigation in the most desolate of places. While working there, Fukuoka had an insight that change
At times Fukuoka’s prose can be striking in its simplicity as when he writes, ‘In nature there are no beneficial or harmful insects,’ and furthermore, ‘this is a human construct akin to saying the right hand is good and the left hand is bad.’ Fukuoka never wastes a word or thought, insisting the reader consider all aspects of how we grow our food everywhere in the world and how the food industry manipulates supply and demand for gross profit in ways both economically and socially damaging. Based primarily on the success of his farm in Japan, the author believes the solution lies in aerial distribution of a large variety of plants via clay seed pellets, the use of
He did not plow his fields, used no agricultural chemicals or prepared fertilizers, and 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.In 1975 he wrote The One-Straw Revolution, a best-selling book that described his life’s journey, his philosophy, and farming techniques. This book has been translated into more than twenty-five language