Podcasts about Masanobu Fukuoka

What if humans acted with nature, not on it? What would farming look like if we stopped trying to master and dominate the environment? According to Andrew Pickering, the no-plowing, no-weeding form of farming developed by Masanobu Fukuoka is a shining example of poiesis, an acting-with that attunes human activity to the propensities of natural phenomena. Andrew Pickering, Acting with the World: Agency in the Anthropocene Duke University Press, 2025 (Image on main page by Jim O'Neil.) The post Acting with the World appeared first on KPFA.

Direction Mimande en Bourgogne pour un épisode avec Armand Heitz ! Issu d'une famille de vignerons, Armand a acquis des parcelles de vigne au fil des années pour constituer son domaine qui s'étend aujourd'hui entre la côte d'or et le Beaujolais. Comme l'exprime son slogan « le terroir sans filtre », il s'est fixé pour objectif de remettre le vivant et la nature au coeur de la production.Dans ce podcast, on se pose plein de questions :Comment l'agroécologie et la permaculture peuvent-elles se déployer dans un domaine viticole ?Qu'est-ce que le bon sens paysan ?Comment l'introduction de l'élevage sur l'exploitation permet d'enrichir les sols ?Comment diversifier son activité d'agriculteur avec l'hôtellerie-restauration et l'événementiel ?Lien vers les références citées :Masanobu Fukuoka, agriculteur japonais théoricien de l'agriculture naturelle, les fashion faux pas des mariages sur son domaineRudy Ricciotti, architecte du Musem à MarseilleRudolf Steiner, théoricien de la biodynamiqueVoltis et Souvigner gris, cépages ne nécessitant pas de traitements Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

In this episode we chat with Rob Rock of Pitchfork Farm in Vermont. Rob has been organic farming since 2002 and has been an innovator in the field of "slow tools", tools made for human scale, ecological farming. In this wide ranging conversation we dive deep into topics such as the role of technology in small-scale farming, community building and the importance of local business, the future of small farms amidst climate change, and how we all need to take part in designing the future we want. PLEASE make sure to subscribe to the podcast, download our episodes, and rate them! Your support means the world to us. Thank you! Timestamps [2:36] Importance of farmer gatherings and meeting other farmers [6:36] Designing and creating tools for small farms [8:34] Farm flooding, climate change, future of ag in Vermont [22:55] Why do we need small farms? [30:22] Pitchfork farm, importance of crew relationships, community developing from the farm [42:12] Farm relationship with chefs and restaurants [48:31] Importance of "supporting cast" in the small farm movement [55:43] Slow Tools, becoming a tool inventor, future of tech in slow tools, AI [1:31:01] Where is small-scale farming going as a movement? [1:35:09] Will the future be "solar punk" ? [1:41:39] The One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka, farming in Japan [1:48:31] Learn other skills! Take part in designing the future Sponsors Bootstrap Farmer https://www.bootstrapfarmer.com/  Ooooby https://www.ooooby.com/ (mention the podcast for 75% off onboarding fee) Tessier https://info.serres-guytessier.com/en/tessier-mgi10 Use promocode MGI10 for 10% off and free shipping on your first purchase for the Eastern North American regions (Ontario, the Maritimes, and the states of Vermont, Maine, New York, and New Hampshire). Links/Resources Market Gardener Institute:  https://themarketgardener.com/  Masterclass:  https://themarketgardener.com/courses/the-market-gardener-masterclass/  Newsletter:  https://themarketgardener.com/newsletter Blog:  https://themarketgardener.com/blog  Books: https://themarketgardener.com/books Growers & Co: https://growers.co/ Heirloom: https://heirloom.ag/ The Old Mill: https://www.espaceoldmill.com/en/ Follow Us Website: http://themarketgardener.com  Facebook: http://facebook.com/marketgardenerinstitute  Instagram: http://instagram.com/themarketgardeners  Guest Social Media Links Rob: IG: https://www.instagram.com/real_rob_rock/ Farm IG: https://www.instagram.com/pitchforkfarm/ Tool design IG: https://www.instagram.com/upstream_ag/ Farm Website: https://www.pitchforkfarmvt.com/  JM: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeanmartinfortier Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jeanmartinfortier 

She gave up a corporate career to live a slow life: to travel, to immerse, to write, to learn to see. Arati Kumar-Rao joins Amit Varma in episode 383 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about her writing, her photography and the lessons she has learnt by standing still and looking. (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.) Also check out: 1. Arati Kumar-Rao on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and her own website. 2. Marginlands: Indian Landscapes on the Brink -- Arati Kumar-Rao. 3. The Peepli Project. 4. The Prem Panicker Files — Episode 217 of The Seen and the Unseen. 5. Killers of the Flower Moon -- David Grann. 6. Sowmya Dhanaraj Is Making a Difference — Episode 380 of The Seen and the Unseen. 7. Rahul Matthan Seeks the Protocol — Episode 360 of The Seen and the Unseen. 8. Masanobu Fukuoka and Wendell Berry. 9. India's Water Crisis — Episode 60 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vishwanath S aka Zenrainman). 10. The American Geographies -- Barry Lopez. 11. The Invisible Gorilla. 12. Letters to a Young Poet -- Rainer Maria Rilke. 13. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor -- Rob Nixon. 14. The Fatal Conceit -- Friedrich Hayek. 15. The Gokhale Bridge fiasco. 16. Pritika Hingorani Wants to Fix Our Cities — Episode 361 of The Seen and the Unseen. 17. Toba Tek Singh -- Sadat Hasan Manto. 18. The Rooted Cosmopolitanism of Sugata Srinivasaraju — Episode 277 of The Seen and the Unseen. 19. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen with Ramachandra Guha: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 20. Modern South India: A History from the 17th Century to our Times -- Rajmohan Gandhi. 21. Blindness --  José Saramago. 22. The Wreck -- Rabindranath Tagore. 23. Rabindranath Tagore, Satyajit Ray and Gulzar. 24. Rachel Carson, Barry Lopez, Nan Shepherd and Robert Macfarlane on Amazon. 25. The Living Mountain -- Nan Shepherd. 26. The Peregrine -- JA Baker. 27. Paul Salopek on Twitter and the Out of Eden Walk. 28. Pradip Krishen on Wikipedia, Amazon and IMDb. 29. Pather Panchali -- Satyajit Ray, 30. The Grapes of Wrath -- John Steinbeck. 31. Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath -- John Steinbeck. 32. Call Me American -- Abdi Nor Iftin. 33. Hisham Matar and Kamila Shamsie on Amazon. This episode is sponsored by CTQ Compounds. Check out The Daily Reader and FutureStack. Use the code UNSEEN for Rs 2500 off. Amit's newsletter is explosively active again. Subscribe right away to The India Uncut Newsletter! It's free! Amit Varma and Ajay Shah have launched a new video podcast. Check out Everything is Everything on YouTube. Check out Amit's online course, The Art of Clear Writing. Episode art: ‘River' by Simahina.

you're trying to do too much againtime to learn about Masanobu Fukuoka, Japanese farmer who pioneered the "do nothing" method by listening, trusting, and working with natureLets goFukuoka was born on Feb 2nd, 1913. His father was an educated man, completed an exceptional eight years of schooling, and the local leaders repeatedly selected him mayor. His mother was of Samurai descent and also well-educated. The land had been in the family for over 1400 yearsa troublesome student, he angered the teachers, and one day his music teacher broke the village organ in frustrationHis father sent him to Gifu Agricultural College for higher education to prepare for inheriting the family farmIn 1934, Fukuoka secured a role in Yokohama Customs Office's Plant Inspection Section. Working in a hilltop laboratory, he delved into studying diseases, fungi, and pests on imported plants"in amazement at the world of nature revealed through the eyepiece of the microscope"His third year at Yokohama, Fukuoka battled acute pneumonia, enduring harsh treatments like exposure to wintry air. Isolated, friends shunned him due to contagion fears. Even nurses fled after temperature checks, leaving him sick, lonely, and fearing for his life at 25After recovering, Fukuoka, haunted by his brush with death, obsessively pondered life's meaning. During a solitary walk, he reached a cliff's edge, contemplating the impact of his death. Realizing his lack of true friends, he collapsed in a deep sleep under an elm treeWaking to a heron's cry at dawn, he watched the sunrise through mist, birds singing, realizing"all the concepts to which he had been clinging were empty fabrications. All his agonies disappeared like dreams and illusions, a something one might call 'true nature' stood revealed"Fukuoka quit his job the next day. For months he lived on severance pay proclaiming "everything is meaningless."Dismissed as eccentric, he returned home, retreated to a mountain hut, and entrusted with his father's citrus grove. Testing his revelation, he began doing nothing.He let meticulously pruned fruit trees go wild. Insects attacked, branches interlocked, and the orchard withered. His father's grove taught Fukuoka a crucial lesson: abrupt changes harm cultivated trees, realizing the importance of gradual adaptation to natural farmingHis odd behavior concerned his parents and as the mayor's son, "hiding" wasn't acceptableIn 1939, he was offered the chief role at an Agricultural Experiment Station, he accepted at his father's wishes. He moved to Kochi and was expected to increase wartime food productionIndependently, Fukuoka conducted studies comparing yields from chemically enhanced crops with those grown naturally. He scientifically established natural farming's superiority over chemical aids, building upon his earlier revelation that "doing nothing was best""I just emptied my mind and tried to absorb what I could from nature"Instead of asking "how about doing this?"ask "how about not doing this?"Over the years, as a more natural ecology was re-established, the less he did, the better the land respondedFukuoka observed, "The earth cultivates itself" Recognizing roots, worms, and micro-organisms thrive, he saw no need for human intervention. Plowing alters the environment and encourages weed growth.His first principle: No plowing or soil turningChemical fertilizers aid crops but harm soil. Nature itself can do better than compost and chicken poop (which can cause rice blast disease). Instead, use cover crops like clover as a natural fertilizer.Fukuoka's second principle: No chemical fertilizers or prepared compostPlowing stirs deep-lying weed seeds and chemical herbicides leaves poison. Weeds don't need to be eliminated, just suppressed with straw and ground cover, plus timely seeding to eliminate intervals between crops is crucialHis 3rd principle: No weeding by tillage or herbicidesPests and diseases attack the weakest plants, allowing the strong to survive. Chemical solutions, though effective in the short term, are hazardous in the long run, leave weak and chemical-dependent plantsFukuoka's 4th principle: No dependence on chemical pesticidesO-bon festival is when ancestors return to earth for 3 days to visit the living. On the 3rd night the ancestors go back with a sendoff of songs and fireworksMasanobu Fukuoka, author of The One-Straw Revolution, passed away on Aug 16, 2008, on that 3rd day of O-bonHe was 95Thank you very much for listening. Links in the show notes for the articles and videos referenced here. Image credit: farmerandchef.co.ukIf there's another farmer you'd like me to cover, send me a message! @farmhoplife on all the social medias or matt@farmhoplife.comGo feed yourself.

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A lot of my work these days revolves around communicating with farmers around Europe who are at various stages of a transition towards regenerative management. For many different reasons farmers are looking for solutions outside of the conventional industry of chemical and technological manipulations and are rediscovering the potential of partnering with natural cycles and processes. Though there are a handful of examples of growers who've been pioneering these practices around the continent, the vast majority are fairly early in their journeys. It's still rare to find an experienced commercial grower who has found success through organic, no-till, low input systems.  Luckily there are a few who have shown that this is possible and are sharing their knowledge and experience and I'm thrilled to feature one of them in this session. Helen Atthowe has worked for 35 years to connect farming, food systems, land stewardship, and conservation. She currently farms and does soil- and natural enemies' habitat- building research on her new 5-acre farm in Western Montana. Helen has an M.S. in Horticulture from Rutgers University and even studied with renowned Japanese farmer Masanobu Fukuoka. She has worked in education and research at Rutgers, the University of Arkansas, and Oregon State University and was a Horticulture Extension Agent in Montana for 17 years. Helen was a board member for the Organic Farming Research Foundation 2000-2005 and advisor for Wild Farm Alliance in 2018 & 2019.  She first owned and operated a 30 acre certified organic vegetable/fruit farm in Montana and later co-owned with her late husband a 26 acre certified organic orchard in California. Together they then moved to a 211 acre organic farm in Eastern Oregon doing mainly orchard and vegetable production. The two of them also created educational videos on their YouTube channel called Agrarian Dreams, and did video presentations about their ecological farming methods. She is the author of “The Ecological Farm: A Minimalist No-Till, No-Spray, Selective-Weeding, Grow-Your-Own-Fertilizer System for Organic Agriculture”. And that is exactly what we'll be focusing on in our interview today. As a reflection of many of the discussions happening within the Climate Farmer's community at the moment, Helen and I really dug into the unique goals she and her husband had during their farming careers and how they gauged their success. We talk about the way they measured progress on their journey towards a healthy yet low input system for both their orchard and vegetable crops as well the routines and practices that brought them the best results. Much more than just the knowledge and practices of her farming experience, Helen brings a remarkable mindset of constant learning and experimentation to this conversation that is now informing her new 5 acre project in Montana. We also cover the most important learnings that she has gained through her career and how it informs the establishment of all her new research.

Sau Cuộc Cách Mạng Một-Cọng-Rơm, Gieo Mầm Trên Sa Mạc lại là một cuốn sách có ảnh hưởng sâu sắc và quan trọng của lão nông Masanobu Fukuoka. Cuốn sách thấm đẫm suy tưởng của ông về trồng trọt, nông nghiệp cũng như cách ông lý giải cuộc sống này dưới con mắt khoa học, triết học. Và hơn hết, cuốn sách trình bày giấc mơ được cho không tưởng của ông – giấc mơ phủ xanh lại sa mạc.Gieo Mầm Trên Sa Mạc được ông viết vỏn vẹn trong 3 tháng không cần chuẩn bị. Sách dễ nghe với những phân đoạn nhỏ mà xen giữa những bức tranh ông tự vẽ. Cuốn sách giống như di sản của ông với những chia sẻ đa dạng và sâu sắc hơn về việc làm nông tự nhiên, phục hồi sự sống trên phạm vi toàn cầu và giải quyết căn bản vấn đề an ninh lương thực. --Về Fonos:Fonos là ứng dụng sách nói có bản quyền. Trên ứng dụng Fonos, bạn có thể nghe định dạng sách nói của những cuốn sách nổi tiếng nhất từ các tác giả trong nước và quốc tế. Ngoài ra, bạn được sử dụng miễn phí nội dung Premium khi đăng ký trở thành Hội viên của Fonos: Tóm tắt sách, Ebook, Thiền định, Truyện ngủ, Nhạc chủ đề, Sách nói miễn phí cho Hội viên.--Tải ứng dụng Fonos tại: https://fonos.app.link/tai-fonosTìm hiểu về Fonos: https://fonos.vn/Theo dõi Facebook Fonos: https://www.facebook.com/fonosvietnam/Theo dõi Instagram Fonos: https://www.instagram.com/fonosvietnam/Đọc các bài viết thú vị về sách, tác giả sách, những thông tin hữu ích để phát triển bản thân: http://blog.fonos.vn/

Are you resilient? Would you like to expand your resilience? What does that even mean? Today we have Todd Dwyer and Scott Hambrick from the Growing Resilience podcast. We will discuss food security, dependence versus independence and much more. This fits with our SOTG Homeroom from CrossBreed Holsters. During our Duracoat Finished Firearm segment Professor Paul provides some words of encouragement. Whether you are a beginner or advanced, Duracoat can help you out. What is your local powder situation? For our Brownells Bullet Points, the Professor relates a recent story regarding black powder. Do you need ammunition? The time to purchase it is now. Thanks for being a part of SOTG! We hope you find value in the message we share. If you've got any questions, here are some options to contact us: Send an Email Send a Text Call Us Enjoy the show! And remember…You're a Beginner Once, a Student For Life! TOPICS COVERED THIS EPISODE [0:00:00] Droughts in America: Are they Manufactured? [0:08:40] DuraCoat Finished Firearms - DuraCoat University TOPIC: Colors and Such & Would You Buy SOTG Blue? Huge thanks to our Partners:Brownells | CrossBreed | Duracoat Firearm Finishes | Hi-Point Firearms [0:20:53] Brownells Bullet Points - Brownells.com TOPIC: The Time to Buy Ammo is YESTERDAY [0:38:05] SOTG Homeroom - CrossbreedHolsters.com TOPIC: Todd Dwyer and Scott Hambrick from Growing Resilience www.growingresilience.co/ A podcast about self sufficiency, homesteading, permaculture, and the regenerative agriculture movement. Step 1 - Reframe the way you think about preparedness. Book Recommendations: The One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka  - https://amzn.to/3kRS5Ib 10 Acres Enough by Edmund Morris - https://amzn.to/3JrpuDR The Cottage Economy by William Cobbett - https://amzn.to/3Jza6oO Stockman Grass Farmer Magazine - https://www.stockmangrassfarmer.com/index.php FoxFire Series of Books - https://amzn.to/3DsjcQt The New Organic Grower - https://amzn.to/3kSV7Mp The Market Gardener - https://amzn.to/3DpdyPb FEATURING: Growing Resilience Podcast, Scott Hambrick, Todd Dwyer, Madison Rising, Jarrad Markel, Paul Markel, SOTG University PARTNERS: SDS Imports, Brownells Inc, CrossBreed Holsters, DuraCoat Firearm Finishes, Hi-Point Firearms FIND US ON: Juxxi, Parler, MeWe.com, Gettr, iTunes, Stitcher, AppleTV, Roku, Amazon, GooglePlay, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, tumblr

This interview is with Tai-Ran Niew of Niew Vineyards. In the interview, Tai-Ran takes us through his journey so far, which includes his time before wine. Prior to entering the Wine Industry, Tai-Ran studied aeronautical engineering at Cambridge and worked as an investment banker. During trips abroad he discovered more about wine and his interest continued to grow. Tai-Ran specifically describes his time and work in Tasmania and why that experience inspired him to start making wine in Oregon. From there, Tai-Ran discusses Niew Vineyard and what that project has been like. He goes over selecting and designing his label and what the process was of building his brand. He also talks about finding the land, choosing to make Chardonnay, and defining his vineyard and winemaking philosophy. He discusses Masanobu Fukuoka, who inspired his vineyard philosophy and what impact that has had on the land and vines. At the end, he shares his thoughts on the wine industry and what future he'd like to see for himself and Niew Vineyards. This interview was conducted by Rich Schmidt at Niew Vineyards in Newberg on July 23, 2021.

Note: We discuss a fermented tea from poison ivy-- the french word 'ortie', is actually stinging nettle tea. Ferns are also common for a fermented soil amendment in the region. Thanks to Edible Earth for the translation help!   We return to the concept of natural, 'do-nothing' farming proposed by Masanobu Fukuoka and chat with Éric Texier, a wine-maker in Brézème, France, who has applied the concepts of natural farming to his vineyards over the past three decades.  We chat about what has worked, what hasn't worked, the role climate change plays in the future of viticulture, and if the wine industry is prepared for the changes necessary, given climate change. It is no exaggeration that Éric Texier is one of the most important people in modern viticulture. A Bordeaux native who has lived in or around Lyon since 1979, Eric is a jovial, energetic and fun-loving person who wants his wines to make their drinkers happy. But he is also a boundary pusher, endlessly questioning his own work for the sake of moving viticulture and winemaking forward. Éric is a trailblazer, having put the all but extinct regions of Brézème and Saint Julien en Sain Alban on the map. He experiments with concepts you rarely if ever hear about elsewhere: finding acidity in Marsanne through anforas, not working the soil in favor of cover crops, "infusion" style macerations, working on his own grafts, rediscovering forgotten grapes adaptable to the very real threat of climate change. Brézème is available for purchase across the globe, and you can learn more about their wine process at: https://www.eric-texier.com/ Eric can be found occasionally posting about the vineyards on Instagram @Brezame   Support this podcast by visiting www.patreon.com/poorprolesalmanac or sign up for our newsletter at www.poorproles.com 

We're back for season 3! In our first episode, we're talking about Masanobu Fukuoka, do nothing farming, and how he ended up coining this concept of natural farming. Fukuoka has an interesting history that led him to repeated failed attempts that brought him to a final solution on what doing nothing is, and it's not doing nothing. Tune into this episode to find out! Masanobu Fukuoka (2 February 1913 – 16 August 2008) was a Japanese farmer and philosopher celebrated for his natural farming and re-vegetation of desertified lands. He was a proponent of no-till, herbicide and pesticide free cultivation methods from which he created a particular method of agriculture commonly referred to as "natural farming" or "do-nothing farming". Fukuoka was the author of several books, scientific papers and other publications, and was featured in television documentaries and interviews from the 1970s onwards. His influences went beyond farming to inspire individuals within the natural food and lifestyle movements. He was an outspoken advocate of the value of observing nature's principles.   Support this podcast through Patreon at www.patreon.com/poorprolesalmanac    

Establishing pasture can be a complex endeavor. There is an art and science of growing nutrients for animals. This episode is a simple introduction to pasture development that gets you started.The first choice is to determine if pasture is best for your land. Because you can turn something into a pasture doesn't mean it should be such. What are your goals?Meat calories per acre are higher than vegetable calories on the same land. Animals can thrive on land not suitable for vegetable crops. The secret is raising animals, so they only have one bad day. Mental and physical health is critical to humane animal husbandry. A quality pasture is heaven for grazing animals.Today's episode is about pasture for small animals. To learn more on this topic, consider reading more with these experts.* Joel Salatin is a farmer who raises chicken, beef, and pork on pasture. His farm uses rotational grazing to increase soil carbon and grass production.* Masanobu Fukuoka, a proponent of no-till, herbicide, and pesticide-free cultivation. He is known for his natural farming and re-vegetation of desertified land.* Allan Savory is a pioneer in regenerative agriculture. He shows how to increase grass density and soil health with mob grazing. Methods recover degraded land while capturing carbon.You don't need a ranch to benefit from pasture. Even with small livestock, how you manage land improves health conditions. Rotating animals from paddock to paddock requires observation, measurement, and care.To maximize the plenty of what your land can offer, join us at https://www.ProsperityHomestead.org/newsletter/

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Visit Our Sponsor: Foraged.Market This episode begins with a history lesson on Natural Farming and the work of Masanobu Fukuoka and leads into a conversation comparing and contrasting that method and his ideas to Permaculture, delivered in the voice and words of someone who was present in both movements from their earliest days, the late Larry Korn. Resources The One-Straw Revolution The One-Straw Revolutionary Tending the Wild by M. Kat Anderson

The boys sit down initially to discuss the phenomenon of furries and feces, but end up instead discussion anti-industrialism, Tolkien, anarchism, agriculture, and the natural farming philosophy of Japanese thinker Masanobu Fukuoka.

Si deseas que te recomiende una lectura, “La revolución de una brizna de paja” de Masanobu Fukuoka es un libro para introducirse en la agricultura natural. (https://amzn.to/3thcNCu) Para contratarme lo tienes aquí: https://cursosdejardineria.com/#consulta Mi boletín “Los correos del Jardinerista” aquí: https://claudiodoratto.com/boletin El canal de Telegram: https://t.me/jardineros Cursos y clases: https://cursosdejardineria.com La historia de este viernes tiene que ver con las consecuencias de hacer caso al villano de Jardinemundo, Mécanix por mucho tiempo. Colega y aliado de Agrotox viene también con la promesa de poder trabajar grades superficies de terreno para acabar con el hambre mundial. Nos dicen suavemente al oído que los dos harán maravillas, que las verduras sean grandes, lindas, impecables y sin bichos.

Aaron De La Cerda is on this episode of Hobby Farms Presents: Growing Good to talk about the Acta Non Verba Youth Urban Farm Project, fruit gleaning, growing cannabis as a teenager, and why he prefers to be a “lazy” farmer. You'll learn about how a life decision he was asked to make in third grade led to him being known as “the plant person” among his family and friends and shaped his career and life trajectory. Aaron talks about growing up with a family full of educators and how this, plus his green thumb and an interest in social justice eventually brought him to nonprofit urban farming work. Hear about his work with unhoused folks, helping the shelter with a garden, and plotting out fruit gleaning opportunities in Merced, Cali. Then, get up to speed with the work of Acta Non Verba Youth Urban Farm Project and its kids and family programs. Hear about the community farm at the Oakland A's baseball stadium, as well as two other urban farms, and the wild growth of ANV's Beet Box CSA program. Finally, get Aaron's advice—hat tip to Masanobu Fukuoka's book One-Straw Revolution—for hands-off, natural-systems farming, consider the current crisis of “local” food, and hear Aaron's thoughts on the role and future of urban farming. (Spoiler alert: It isn't to feed the whole city's population.)  Acta Non Verba Youth Urban Farm website ANV on Facebook ANV on Instagram  

"La revolución de una brizna de paja" es la obra del japonés Masanobu Fukuoka publicada en 1975. Una obra que todo agricultor debería tener en cuenta y que demuestra que la agricultura química es totalmente innecesaria, además de peligrosa. Fukuoka demuestra que no necesita ni máquinas, ni fertilizantes, ni arrancar malas hierbas, ni labrar el suelo, ni mucho menos herbicidas ni pesticidas para obtener una cosecha mucho más rentable que la que pudiera obtener siguiendo los modernos preceptos de la agricultura. En fin, toda una mofa a las investigaciones y prácticas científicas y a la ingeniería agrónoma de los últimos tiempos. Todo lo que aprendió este biólogo lo hizo desde el convencimiento de que la agricultura se practicaba cooperando con la naturaleza en lugar de tratar de "mejorarla" con su conquista. Puedes seguirme en Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cosmetica_de_trincheras/ Visita mi hogar digital: www.cosmeticadetrincheras.com Apúntate gratis a "Limpio bonito" y aprende a realizar limpiadores caseros ecológicos: https://gmail.us20.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=a8f185e8f92e32689c42e93f1&;id=7471c46884

Ti piacerebbe un giardino godibile e in grado di autosostenersi senza grandi investimenti in termini di lavoro, risorse e soldi?Non serve chissà quale stratagemma.Basta solo avere il giusto approccio mentale e saper trarre spunto dalla natura che ci circonda.Questo è ciò che distingue maggiormente il mio metodo di lavoro, che scaturisce sia da una lunga esperienza, fatta anche di prove e insuccessi, sia da ricerca e studio continui.In questo episodio voglio renderti partecipe di uno dei miei modelli di riferimento: il giapponese Masanobu Fukuoka, con il suo libro manifesto "La rivoluzione del filo di paglia".Questo testo oltre ad essere un trattato pratico è al tempo stesso un saggio filosofico e spirituale.E' proprio su questi aspetti che voglio maggiormente farti focalizzare.Se vuoi abbracciare il mio metodo di giardinaggio sostenibile, senza sprechi e senza alcun prodotto della chimica, occorre una maggiore consapevolezza e abbandonare vecchi modelli e paradigmi."La rivoluzione del filo di paglia" è stato pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1975.In quell'anno io ero ancora attaccato al seno della mamma.Pensa quanti anni sono passati in cui avremmo potuto fare diversamente e sicuramente di meglio.Non aggiungo altro.Buon ascolto.

Decades before the first international permaculture conference or certified organic tomato, a farmer on an island in southern Japan turned his back on industrial agriculture and devoted his life to finding a different way of farming.Masanobu Fukuoka was working as a plant pathologist when he experienced a revelation – and promptly quit his job and returned home to his family farm. Eventually, he wrote The One-Straw Revolution, a manifesto on his method, shizen noho, and the philosophy of “do-nothing farming.” Published in 1978, the book has been described by writer Michael Pollan as “one of the founding documents of the alternative food movement.” But its reach goes far beyond farming: The One Straw Revolution has been translated into 25 languages and is admired by artists, writers, and philosophers. What is it about this slim green book that has touched so many people? Part I tells the “origin story” of Masanobu Fukuoka, and how his ideas spread far beyond his home on the Japanese island of Shikoku. In Part II, we journey to that corner of southern Japan, and the mountain where Masanobu Fukuoka once lived and farmed, to see shizen noho in action today.Featuring Takeshi Watanabe, Robin Calderon, and Hiroki Fukuoka.SUPPORTOutside/In is made possible with listener support. Click here to become a sustaining member of Outside/In. Subscribe to our newsletter.Follow Outside/In on Instagram and TwitterJoin our private podcast discussion group on Facebook LINKS + FURTHER READING Masanobu Fukuoka Natural FarmFukuoka's discussion with Bill Mollison and Wes Jackson for Mother Earth News, which took place in 1986 at the Second  International Permaculture Conference in Washington state.Many of those practicing natural farming in Japan learned about it from Yoshikazu Kawaguchi, who adapted Fukuoka's practice and started a natural farming school called Akame Shizennou Jyuku.The 1978 review of The One Straw Revolution in Akwesasne Notes, a newspaper published by the Mohawk NationFor more on the story behind the book's publication and Fukuoka's travels in the United States: The One Straw Revolutionary: The Philosophy and Work of Masanobu Fukuoka by Larry KornCREDITSSpecial thanks to Tim Crews and the Land Institute, ethnobotanist Justin Robinson, Jeffrey Gray of Fenlake Farm, Paul Quirk of Ishiharaya farm, Bill Vitek, and Atsushi Tada and Taro Nakamura, who work with the Masanobu Fukuoka Natural Farm. Reported and written by Justine Paradis and Hannah KirshnerProduced and mixed by Justine ParadisExecutive producer: Rebecca LavoieEdited by Taylor QuimbyAdditional editing: Rebecca Lavoie and Felix PoonTranslation help from Michael ThorntonTheme: Breakmaster CylinderAdditional music by Blue Dot Sessions and Patrick Patrikios

Decades before the first international permaculture conference or certified organic tomato, a farmer on an island in southern Japan turned his back on industrial agriculture and devoted his life to finding a different way of farming.Masanobu Fukuoka was working as a plant pathologist when he experienced a revelation – and promptly quit his job and returned home to his family farm. Eventually, he wrote The One-Straw Revolution, a manifesto on his method, shizen noho, and the philosophy of “do-nothing farming.” Published in 1978, the book has been described by writer Michael Pollan as “one of the founding documents of the alternative food movement.” But its reach goes far beyond farming: The One Straw Revolution has been translated into 25 languages and is admired by artists, writers, and philosophers. Fukuoka passed away in 2008, but his grandson, Hiroki Fukuoka, is still living and farming there today. In the second part of the story of Fukuoka and “do-nothing” farming, writer Hannah Kirshner journeys to the place where he lived and farmed, to see shizen noho, as it is today. Featuring Hiroki Fukuoka, with appearances by Akiko Fukuoka, Taro Nakamura, and Atsushi Tada.SUPPORTOutside/In is made possible with listener support. Click here to become a sustaining member of Outside/In. Subscribe to our newsletter.Follow Outside/In on Instagram and TwitterJoin our private podcast discussion group on Facebook LINKS + FURTHER READING Masanobu Fukuoka Natural FarmHannah Kirshner, author of Water, Wood, and Wild Things: Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain TownFukuoka in discussion with Bill Mollison and Wes Jackson for Mother Earth News, which took place at the Second International Permaculture Conference in Washington state.Many of those practicing natural farming in Japan learned about it from Yoshikazu Kawaguchi, who adapted Fukuoka's practice and started a natural farming school called Akame Shizennou Jyuku.The 1978 review of The One Straw Revolution in Akwesasne Notes, a newspaper published by the Mohawk NationFor more on the story behind the book's publication and Fukuoka's travels in the United States: The One Straw Revolutionary: The Philosophy and Work of Masanobu Fukuoka by Larry KornCREDITSSpecial thanks to Tim Crews and the Land Institute, ethnobotanist Justin Robinson, Jeffrey Gray of Fenlake Farm, Paul Quirk of Ishiharaya farm, Bill Vitek, and Atsushi Tada and Taro Nakamura, who work with the Masanobu Fukuoka Natural Farm. Reported and written by Justine Paradis and Hannah KirshnerProduced and mixed by Justine ParadisExecutive producer: Rebecca LavoieEdited by Taylor QuimbyAdditional editing: Rebecca Lavoie and Felix PoonTranslation help from Michael ThorntonTheme: Breakmaster CylinderAdditional music by Patrick Patrikios and Blue Dot Sessions

Passion, service, community, and curiosity are the threads that weave the story of Mark Voss. Mark is a consummate educator, farmer, and real estate professional residing in Madison, Wisconsin. He is the founder of Voss Organics and is a Latitude Change Agent. Like many young people, curiosity and the longing for adventure first lured Mark to venture far and wide from his humble youth in the Midwest. From paradigm-shifting lessons during a Peace Corps service in Africa, a pilgrimage to Masanobu Fukuoka's farm while teaching English in Japan, and immersion into the field of biodynamic agriculture while starting a 60-family CSA farm, it is evident from this story that Mark has embodied the experiences and lessons to become a wise teacher himself.Mark lives and breathes community. His urban farm produces seed starts for his business Voss Organics, which serves the Madison area farmers markets. He is a recently retired public and charter schoolteacher where not only he taught French, but also left a wake of school gardening programs. During his last year of teaching in 2021, Mark and a fellow science teacher created a course for the students called “The Honorable Harvest” that they based on the literary work of “Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer. This special course helped students learned how people and plants have an integral relationship with each other. Mark sees tremendous potential to use real estate as the catalyst for positive social and environmental change. For him, real estate serves as an educational tool to not only impact individuals and families, but strengthen communities and networks of aligned businesses and organizations. 

The survey has been completed for my property, and I've shatterproofed the exterior windows of the RV. I also experienced a personal revelation that my intuition to save seeds is exactly what Masanobu Fukuoka suggests to re-green desertified land. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/zombie-permaculture/support

Welcome to Episode #22 with Shane Joyce from Kilkivan Community Farm… where we got much more than we bargained for! Shane has a background in the beef cattle industry but is a jack of all trades - he's an incredibly diverse, passionate man with an awesome sense of humour!  Topics of our chat include reforestation, syntropics (shout out to Thiago Barbosa), agricultural land trusts (shout out to Sam Marwood) and community farming... to name a few. Shane's plan is to put his farm at Kilkivan into 'community' ownership... what an inspiring concept! He's a “big picture” kind of guy who practices an “attitude of gratitude” and believes that “living in the question” is the the key to happiness and success.  We hope you enjoy this episode with the enthusiastic Shane Joyce of Kilkivan Community Farm. Make sure you get in touch with them for more information. -- Thank you for watching. Please Like and Subscribe to Eco Convos with Dan... and be sure to Comment and Share too! You can find us on Spotify & Apple Podcasts, as well as -  Facebook: @ecoconvos  Instagram: @ecoconvoswithdan  Website: www.ecoconvos.com.au #SupportLocal #BuyEthical #DemandRealFood  Credits: Production by 'MAV marketing'  Hosted by Dan Vanderhoek - Eco & Lifestyle Property Specialist  Guest was Shane Joyce from Kilkivan Community Farm Music by @DanielRaymxnd -- Mentions: Kilkivan Community Farm > https://kc-farm.wixsite.com/kilkivan-farm (https://kc-farm.wixsite.com/kilkivan-farm) > @KilkivanCommunityFarm Agricultural land trusts (Sam Marwood) https://www.cultivatefarms.com/about (https://www.cultivatefarms.com/about) RCS Australia > "Profit Probe" Gympie & District Landcare The Mary River Catchment Coordinating Committee (MRCCC)  Koala Action Group “Living in the question” > “How does it get any better than this?” > “What else is possible?” Living with an “attitude of gratitude” Books:  ‘The Intention Experiment' by Lynne McTaggart ‘The Field' by Lynne McTaggart ‘The Power of Eight' by Lynne McTaggart 'The One‑Straw Revolution' by Masanobu Fukuoka

Join Ellen and Jennifer as they chat about the natural farming book - The One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka. Ellen: "had heard about and stumbled across this book numerous times 10, 15, 20 years ago and just never got around to reading it. I'm not even sure what finally prompted me to pick it up so many years later in the thick of educating myself about permaculture and other resilient farming methods, but let me tell you, when I finally read it I kind of felt like kicking myself for getting to it so late! Because I honestly believe had I read it all those years ago it could have helped propel and inform me in so many ways that I longed for back then and couldn't conceptualize."

Cuộc Cách Mạng Một - Cọng - Rơm là cuốn sách nổi tiếng của Mansanobu Fukuoka, người khai sinh nông nghiệp tự nhiên của Nhật Bản và thế giới. Cuốn sách (đã được dịch ra 25 thứ tiếng) không chỉ là sự trải nghiệm về cách thức nuôi trồng các sản phẩm nông nghiệp trong sự tương tác hài hòa với môi trường tự nhiên mà còn đem đến cho người đọc những suy tưởng thú vị về triết học, về ăn uống, về y học và cuộc sống.Có thể gọi ông Masanobu Fukuoka, tác giả cuốn sách, là người nông dân vĩ đại nhất hành tinh cũng không có gì là lạm dụng từ ngữ. Ông là người đạt đến cảnh giới vô vi trong nông nghiệp và là vị sư tổ của nông nghiệp tự nhiên. Nhưng bạn không nên để tựa đề cuốn sách đánh lừa. Cuộc Cách Mạng Một - Cọng - Rơm, nhưng chẳng có “cuộc cách mạng” nào ở đây cả. Cuốn sách chỉ là những ghi chép của một người làm nông khiêm nhường rón rén trước thiên nhiên vườn ruộng, như thể mỗi một từ được viết ra tác giả đều sợ làm tổn thương đất đai cây cỏ.--Về Fonos:Fonos là ứng dụng sách nói có bản quyền. Trên ứng dụng Fonos, bạn có thể nghe định dạng sách nói của những cuốn sách nổi tiếng nhất từ các tác giả trong nước và quốc tế. Ngoài ra, bạn được sử dụng miễn phí nội dung Premium khi đăng ký trở thành Hội viên của Fonos: Truyện ngủ, Nhạc thư giãn, Thiền định, Tóm tắt sách.--Tải ứng dụng Fonos tại: https://fonos.app.link/tai-fonosTìm hiểu về Fonos: https://fonos.vn/Theo dõi Facebook Fonos: https://www.facebook.com/fonosvietnam/Theo dõi Instagram Fonos: https://www.instagram.com/fonosvietnam/Đọc các bài viết thú vị về sách, tác giả sách, những thông tin hữu ích để phát triển bản thân: http://blog.fonos.vn/

Peter Darlington Facebook: Solar Homes Inc.-Calgary's Net-Zero Energy Homes Twitter: @SolarHomesInc In this episode Shawna catches up with Peter Darlington-the founder and owner of Solar Homes Inc.. He is the leader in Canada on net zero renovations and his passion is emissions reductions. Tune in to find out: -The difference between net-zero and passive house. -Whether any home can be retrofitted to net-zero. -What it was like building his own energy efficient home-the first home in Canada to be labeled under the Canadian Home Builders Association Net zero Renovation Pilot Program. NOTE: Because of internet instability the quality of the audio is not what we would like. Thanks. Host/Producer - Shawna Henderson shawna@bluehouseenergy.com Producer - Tanya Chedrawy tanya@tanyamedia.com Technical Producer - Michael Boyd michaelboyd@podcastatlantic.com Social Media – Anita Kirkbride www.twirp.ca A Production of: Blue House Energy bluehouseenergy.com/ Tanya Media tanyamedia.com Podcast Atlantic podcastatlantic.com/ Blue House Energy's Website by R & G - The Sustainability Agency https://www.rgstrategic.com/ Music from Arches Audio - https://archesaudio.com/ Title of Song - "Road Trip" LINKS IN THIS EPISODE Solar Homes Inc - https://www.solarhomesinc.com/ Canadian Home Builders' Assocation - https://www.chba.ca/ Net Zero Renovation Working Group - https://www.chba.ca/CHBA/HousingCanada/Net_Zero_Energy_Program/CHBA/Housing_in_Canada/Net_Zero_Energy_Program/NZE_Program_Landing_Page.aspx Passive House - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_house Wood-Fibre Insulation - https://www.canadianbiomassmagazine.ca/wood-fibre-insulation-an-effective-renewable-choice-for-residential-buildings-7326/ SAIT - https://www.sait.ca/ NAIT - https://www.nait.ca/nait/home Emporia Energy Monitors - https://www.emporiaenergy.com/best-home-energy-monitor?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIlbXw8rvM8gIVbgaICR2ZcAnjEAAYASAAEgIQJvD_BwE EIFS - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exterior_insulation_finishing_system Permaculture - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture Masanobu Fukuoka - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanobu_Fukuoka

Hang Mai is a green, social entrepreneur from Vietnam. She runs Xanh Shop, which connects produce of farmers and interested urban citizens. She recently transformed the business to foster gift ecology in the associated communities. She believes that "large is small, many times over.'' So she focuses her energy on growing people and encourages them to start their own projects. In many cases, she even gives the seed capital needed as a gift. Hang was instrumental in getting "One Straw Revolution", the iconic book of Masanobu Fukuoka, translated into Vietnamese. It's been a best seller that has set off a "Back to the Land" revolution, especially among youth. After marrying Chau Duong, she moved to a two hectare farm an hour away from Ho Chi Minh city. Together, they built a couple of homes mostly from material that nobody wanted.  Homesteaded here, they nurture many ponds, many fruit trees and cultivate deeper relationships with neighbors. The farm has become the center of their hearts and the base of their training programs in Permaculture offered as a gift. Here are Hang's responses to the "5 Questions" we asked her : What makes you come alive?  Living simply on our farm. What event/moment has been a pivotal turning point in your life?  Transforming is a slow process. There are many turning points in my life actually: Practice Qigong Dr. Tho Ha Vinh with his teachings about self-leadership, about mindfulness & compassion, about social & emotional learning.   Nipun and other ServiceSpace volunteers who walk their talk of laddership & giftivism.   The jungle of love  An act of kindness you'll never forget?  Audrey Lin of ServiceSpace with her question: how can I make your day? One thing on your bucket list?  Have no-expectation but welcome any emergence.   Your one-line message for the world?  My life is my message!   ************* Chau Duong is a true son of the soil. He trained with Bill Mollison, considered the father of Permaculture, three decades ago. And he was inspired to live for twenty years with indigenous communities learning their ways of being aligned with nature. As part of his work in the non-profit world, he was instrumental in changing government policy so the land that belonged to these ethnic minorities can not be taken away by other entities. Chau also anchored the ripples of the Vietnamese version of One Straw Revolution, by holding training sessions on Permaculture Design. And he has always offered these highly priced courses as a gift! He believes that communities that work together, stay together. Whenever he travels, he connects all the neighbors who know him but may not know one other through work of common purpose. He is always ready to share his knowledge about farming, forestry, building homes, creating water harvesting structures etc in a hands-on, demonstrative way. Chau is a hands-on trainer and never fails to add lasting value and lift spirits in that process, wherever he is. Together with Hang, he is constantly focused on the journey back to the source while living an extra-ordinary life on his farm. Here are Chau's responses to the "5 Questions" : What makes you come alive?  Learning and practicing a lifestyle relying on nature (through forest-based garden practices including inner and outer forest-based garden). That is what we call 'Journey towards citizens of the Sun' (trying to make the most of the sun's energy, minimizing the use of non-renewable resources. Being an useful actor in the community by sharing and exchanging different resources (experience and skills and social resources) Living in a joy and happiness in garden basically requires 3V (Vietnamese): * Vườn: Garden; * Vốn: Capital (resources - including skills capital, social capital and financial capital); * Vợ: Wife or partner What event/moment has been a pivotal turning point in your life?  20 years of learning and working with indigenous people who are ethnic minorities in Vietnam, who have relied on forests (nature) for centuries. The most important lesson that made me irrevocably changed from a 'own and control' mindset of nature to a 'relying' mindset on nature (the garden); An act of kindness you'll never forget?  Sincere and non-profit sharing of the ethnic minorities, who i have been working with last 20 years One thing on your bucket list?  Promoting a lifestyle relying on nature by forest-based garden practices (inner forest-based garden lifestyle and physical forest-based garden). Your one-line message for the world?  Adapting to and relying on nature instead of controlling it. 

Hang Mai is a green, social entrepreneur from Vietnam. She runs Xanh Shop, which connects produce of farmers and interested urban citizens. She recently transformed the business to foster gift ecology in the associated communities. She believes that "large is small, many times over.'' So she focuses her energy on growing people and encourages them to start their own projects. In many cases, she even gives the seed capital needed as a gift. Hang was instrumental in getting "One Straw Revolution", the iconic book of Masanobu Fukuoka, translated into Vietnamese. It's been a best seller that has set off a "Back to the Land" revolution, especially among youth. After marrying Chau Duong, she moved to a two hectare farm an hour away from Ho Chi Minh city. Together, they built a couple of homes mostly from material that nobody wanted.  Homesteaded here, they nurture many ponds, many fruit trees and cultivate deeper relationships with neighbors. The farm has become the center of their hearts and the base of their training programs in Permaculture offered as a gift. Here are Hang's responses to the "5 Questions" we asked her : What makes you come alive?  Living simply on our farm. What event/moment has been a pivotal turning point in your life?  Transforming is a slow process. There are many turning points in my life actually: Practice Qigong Dr. Tho Ha Vinh with his teachings about self-leadership, about mindfulness & compassion, about social & emotional learning.   Nipun and other ServiceSpace volunteers who walk their talk of laddership & giftivism.   The jungle of love  An act of kindness you'll never forget?  Audrey Lin of ServiceSpace with her question: how can I make your day? One thing on your bucket list?  Have no-expectation but welcome any emergence.   Your one-line message for the world?  My life is my message!   ************* Chau Duong is a true son of the soil. He trained with Bill Mollison, considered the father of Permaculture, three decades ago. And he was inspired to live for twenty years with indigenous communities learning their ways of being aligned with nature. As part of his work in the non-profit world, he was instrumental in changing government policy so the land that belonged to these ethnic minorities can not be taken away by other entities. Chau also anchored the ripples of the Vietnamese version of One Straw Revolution, by holding training sessions on Permaculture Design. And he has always offered these highly priced courses as a gift! He believes that communities that work together, stay together. Whenever he travels, he connects all the neighbors who know him but may not know one other through work of common purpose. He is always ready to share his knowledge about farming, forestry, building homes, creating water harvesting structures etc in a hands-on, demonstrative way. Chau is a hands-on trainer and never fails to add lasting value and lift spirits in that process, wherever he is. Together with Hang, he is constantly focused on the journey back to the source while living an extra-ordinary life on his farm. Here are Chau's responses to the "5 Questions" : What makes you come alive?  Learning and practicing a lifestyle relying on nature (through forest-based garden practices including inner and outer forest-based garden). That is what we call 'Journey towards citizens of the Sun' (trying to make the most of the sun's energy, minimizing the use of non-renewable resources. Being an useful actor in the community by sharing and exchanging different resources (experience and skills and social resources) Living in a joy and happiness in garden basically requires 3V (Vietnamese): * Vườn: Garden; * Vốn: Capital (resources - including skills capital, social capital and financial capital); * Vợ: Wife or partner What event/moment has been a pivotal turning point in your life?  20 years of learning and working with indigenous people who are ethnic minorities in Vietnam, who have relied on forests (nature) for centuries. The most important lesson that made me irrevocably changed from a 'own and control' mindset of nature to a 'relying' mindset on nature (the garden); An act of kindness you'll never forget?  Sincere and non-profit sharing of the ethnic minorities, who i have been working with last 20 years One thing on your bucket list?  Promoting a lifestyle relying on nature by forest-based garden practices (inner forest-based garden lifestyle and physical forest-based garden). Your one-line message for the world?  Adapting to and relying on nature instead of controlling it. 

LINKS buymeacoffee.com/changeug The ChangeUnderground Academy No-Dig Gardening Course: https://worldorganicnews.com/changeunderground/ FREE eBook: https://worldorganicnews.com/freeebook/ email: jon@worldorganicnews.com Transcript https://worldorganicnews.com/episode261/   Bubugo Conservation Trust http://www.bubugoconservation.org/   John Seymour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Seymour_(author) Masanobu Fukuoka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanobu_Fukuoka Bill Mollison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Mollison In Grave Danger of Falling Food https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrtJbk8_GY8 Quote: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/217513.Bill_Mollison   David MacKenzie https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2534423.Goat_Husbandry The Good Life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Life_(1975_TV_series) J.I. Rodale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._I._Rodale Episode 261. Seymour, Fukuoka, Mollison and MacKenzie

Đây là cuốn sách nổi tiếng của Masanobu Fukuoka, người khai sinh nông nghiệp tự nhiên của Nhật Bản và thế giới. Cuốn sách (đã được dịch ra 25 thứ tiếng) không chỉ là sự trải nghiệm về cách thức nuôi trồng các sản phẩm nông nghiệp trong sự tương tác hài hòa với môi trường tự nhiên mà còn đem đến cho người đọc những suy tưởng thú vị về triết học, về ăn uống, về y học và cuộc sống. Có thể gọi ông Masanobu Fukuoka, tác giả cuốn sách, là người nông dân vĩ đại nhất hành tinh cũng không có gì là lạm dụng từ ngữ. Ông là người đạt đến cảnh giới vô vi trong nông nghiệp và là vị sư tổ của nông nghiệp tự nhiên.Nhưng bạn không nên để tựa đề cuốn sách đánh lừa. “Cuộc cách mạng một - cọng - rơm”, nhưng chẳng có “cuộc cách mạng” nào ở đây cả. Cuốn sách chỉ là những ghi chép của một người làm nông khiêm nhường rón rén trước thiên nhiên vườn ruộng, như thể mỗi một từ được viết ra tác giả đều sợ làm tổn thương đất đai cây cỏ.--Về Fonos:Fonos là ứng dụng sách nói có bản quyền. Trên ứng dụng Fonos, bạn có thể nghe định dạng sách nói những cuốn sách nổi tiếng nhất của các tác giả trong nước và quốc tế. Ngoài ra, bạn được sử dụng miễn phí những nội dung Premium khi đăng ký trở thành Hội viên của Fonos: Truyện ngủ, Nhạc thư giãn, Thiền định, Tóm tắt sách. Tải ứng dụng tại: https://fonos.app.link/tai-fonos--Tải ứng dụng Fonos tại: https://fonos.app.link/tai-fonosTìm hiểu về Fonos: https://fonos.vn/Theo dõi Facebook Fonos: https://www.facebook.com/fonosvietnam/Theo dõi Instagram Fonos: https://www.instagram.com/fonosvietnam/Đọc những bài viết thú vị về sách, các tác giả sách, những thông tin hữu ích để phát triển bản thân: http://blog.fonos.vn/

Im Shumon Kattoshu, Fall Nr. 210, wird eine Szene aus dem Gandhavyuha Sutra ("Eintritt in den Bereich der Wirktlichkeit"), einem Teil des Avatamsaka Sutra, verwendet, in der Manjusri seinen Schüler Sudhana über die möglichen Wirkungen eines Grashalms unterrichtet. Fukuoka Masanobu (1913-2008), japanischer Mikrobiologe und später Landwirt, entwickelte eine Form der Landwirtschaft, die mit der Natur kooperiert, statt sie mit Hilfe von Chemie und Maschinen als Ressource auszunutzen. Die Art seiner Landwirtschaftsmethode bezeichnet er als Anwendung des taoistischen Wu-wei-Prinzips. Die Natur mit ihrer Fähigkeit sich selbst zu erhalten, gilt bei ihm als Vorbild für einen Umgang mit der Welt, der auf Zusammenarbeit statt auf (Aus-) Nutzung basiert. Fukuoka etablierte auf seinem Land ein ökologisches Gleichgewicht für den Schutz der Nutzpflanzen vor Schädlingen und für die Nährstoffanreicherung des Bodens. Seine Felder und Gärten sind reich an Tieren und Pflanzen und müssen weder gepflügt noch chemisch gedüngt werden. Mit Hilfe dieser Landwirtschaftsmethode ließe sich – laut der Aussage von Fukuoka – auf vergleichbar wenig Fläche bequem die Versorgung aller Menschen mit ausreichend Nahrung sicherstellen. Diese würde nicht nur satt machen, sondern zugleich als Medizin eine gute Gesundheit bewirken. Voraussetzung ist jedoch, dass sich die Menschen auf eine jahreszeitliche und regionale (sowie fleischarme) Kost einstellen, nicht immer mehr exotische Nahrung zu sich nehmen und diese zu Jahreszeiten verlangen, in denen deren Grundzutaten natürlicherweise nicht gedeihen. Seine Bücher sind Standardwerke der Permakultur. Das Buch: Masanobu Fukuoka. "The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming" von 1978, wurde 2009 in den USA und auf deutsch (Der Große Weg hat kein Tor. Pala-Verlag) 2013 neu aufgelegt. Christoph Rei Ho Hatlapa weist anhand von Fukuokas Beispiel darauf hin, dass unser Umgang mit der Natur entweder zur gegenseitigen Ausnutzung und zum Untergang als auch – wie eine "Medizin" für uns und für die Natur selber – nachhaltig und heilsam wirken kann. Es kommt darauf an, wie wir mit dieser "Medizin" – mit der Natur im Kleinen und im Großen – umgehen. Im Tempelmanifest der Choka Sangha wurde festgehalten, dass unsere Praxis und Übung in den jahrhundertealten Wurzeln der Tradition des Zen-Buddhismus und in der Ökologie gründet, speziell in der Permakultur mit ihren ethischen Prinzipien “Sorge für die Erde, Sorge für die Menschen und Wachstumsrücknahme und faires Teilen der Ressourcen”. Für die Verwirklichung dieser ethischen Prinzipien brauchen wir aber auch die Übung eines heilsamen sozialen Miteinanders, in dem Konflikte nach Möglichkeit in WIN-WIN-Lösungen umgewandelt werden können. Masanobu Fukuoka selber fand erst nach einer tiefgreifenden Lebenskrise zu seinem unkonventionellen und nachhaltigen Ansatz des Umgangs mit der Natur. Auch für uns geht es heute darum, einen nachhaltigen und sozial verträglichen Umgang mit der Natur zu entwickeln; dabei geht es, wie Fukuoka betont, sowohl um eine naturgemäße Wirtschaft und Landwirtschaft als auch um die Förderung und Vervollkommnung von Menschen.

LINKS buy me a coffee (Thanks!) The ChangeUnderground Academy No-Dig Gardening Course: https://worldorganicnews.com/changeunderground/   email: jon@worldorganicnews.com Transcript https://worldorganicnews.com/episode249/   Subhash Palekar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subhash_Palekar   Green Revolution   How to do Masanobu Fukuoka's natural farming. https://youtu.be/y0xmEDq3NIs   Indian Farmer Suicides https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_suicides_in_India#:~:text=The%20farmer's%20suicide%20rate%20in,more%20than%2010%20suicides%20daily.   5-Layer Mini Forest in 5 Acre Land Boosts Karnataka Farmer’s Annual Income to 25 Lakh! https://www.thebetterindia.com/224417/karnataka-farmer-zero-budget-natural-farming-mini-forest-earns-lakhs-india-gop94/   Subash Palekar five layer model https://abcdfarming.blogspot.com/2015/06/subash-paekar-five-layer-model.html   Why are suicide rates higher in rural communities? https://www.australianunity.com.au/about-us/partnerships/resilience/suicide-rates   Three Sisters Garden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Sisters_(agriculture)

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. This is an important mantra and one that we’ve all heard and applied in some small or large way at home. But for my guest for this episode, this was more than a good idea – it was her career, and it led to her starting her winery.Lisa Bauer is the owner of Yamakiri – a winery she started when she discovered a feral sauvignon blanc vineyard full of grapes that were going to waste.That vineyard couldn’t have been discovered by a better person. Lisa had recently retired from a career in recycling and had a viticultultural philosophy inspired by Masanobu Fukuoka. After retiring she had bought land and moved to the Yorkville Highlands AVA of Mendocino County. Her desire to let nothing go to waste started her on a path to figure out what to do with those savignon blanc grapes… and led to a chain of events that resulted in her winery and her cidery called Sineater Ciders.With Yamakiri and Sineater she continues to make use of that feral vineyard, which she allows to remain “wild,” as well as grapes and fruit from other organic and biodynamic vineyards and orchards.I had a blast getting to know Lisa a little bit, and I hope you do too. She’s funny, smart, and inspiring, and really forged her own path in wine by following her organic values and her desire to let nothing go to waste.http://www.yamakiriwines.com/Sponsor:https://centralaswine.com/

Welcome to Episode #288, with Louis Barnett, a highly regarded speaker and consultant for over fifteen years. He has spoken for world-leading corporate organisations, consulted for top 100 companies and worked with governments across the globe. His journey as an entrepreneur started at the age of twelve when he founded his first company Chokolit. By thirteen, Louis had become the youngest supplier to Waitrose, and within the next two years became Sainsbury’s and Selfridges’ youngest supplier. Over the course of ten years, Louis grew Chokolit into a global business. In 2015, he decided to leave the chocolate industry and since then has used his knowledge and expertise to work with a wide range of companies and engage and educate audiences worldwide through public speaking. Learn more about the content discussed in this episode: Learn more by visiting Louis Barnett website here. Listen to Louis Talks podcast here. Book recommendation: The One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka

How are you stepping into your wholeness? This week's #earthconversepodcast guest is Cori Wright Deily, wilderness guide therapist, mum, farmer.. and the 4th member of the Southwest Passage team. And she is stepping into her wholeness and womanhood. She reflects on her first conversation with a Juniper Tree, and how it was "overwhelming to start this path", "from being so disconnected to being so connected”. Awareness of the bigness of the earth, the conversations and how heavy it can feel, she stepped back. “I needed to hang out with some dead people”. We talk about talking to children about death, grief and the cycle of life. And we talk about the pain of separateness. And stepping into courageous conversations in modern and Covid19 times. As she concludes “there are ways of having a conversation that doesn't pull people apart”. We talk about hope and it turns out she is very hopeful (there's a super lovely surprise announcement) and inspiration from the ‘father of permaculture' Masanobu Fukuoka, and his book Sowing Seeds in the Desert. Throughout, she shares her journey into wholeness, including somatic experiencing and trauma training. Of learning “to always come with deep curiosity, assuming nothing and to ask one more question”. And ‘there is a place to fiercely take a stand, particularly for women”. Claiming permission to “shake and rage”, embrace the sacred and profound “profanity brought me back to life!” she seeks to integrate all parts of herself. And she talks about her work, from working with ‘wealthy whites to ‘invisible people'. Of bringing nature into her social justice work, her teachings and her offerings of taking sexual abuse survivors to the land for healing and ceremony. And she reminds us that we are not alone. EPISODE EXTRAS: Cori is on Instagram @ctheseed and you can contact her (and the Southwest Passage Team) here: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/southwest-passages-counselingconsulting-santa-fe-nm/340384 Email is SWPassages@gmail.com The Practice of Living and Dying (Meredith's programme I mentioned) https://www.schooloflostborders.org/term/practice-living-and-dying Charles Eisenstein (March 2020) article I mentioned, The Coronation, https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/the-coronation/ Masanobu Fukuoka (2013) Sowing Seeds in the Desert. https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/sowing-seeds-in-the-desert/ Video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/F-hWT4c1MO4 NEW HERE? ABOUT EARTH CONVERSE AND I Hi, I am Penelope Mavor, podcast host and founder of Earth Converse a nature-based leadership collaborative helping leaders have the conversations they need to: with themselves, each other and the earth. Please get in touch for executive coaching and leadership development programmes. https://linktr.ee/EarthConverse Email: info@earthconverse.com And the wind, the trees...

LINKS Growing a No-Dig Garden on Udemy Or copy and paste this link: https://www.udemy.com/course/no-dig-garden-course/?referralCode=7393F372D1748E4A4282   World Organic News email: jon@worldorganicnews.com Transcript HERE Dwayne Beck http://www.notill.org/dwayne-beck Episode 236  https://worldorganicnews.com/episode236/ The Johnson Su System https://regenerationinternational.org/bioreactor/ Masanobu Fukuoka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanobu_Fukuoka#Natural_farming

Con Alessandro in questa puntata abbiamo parlato di responsabilità, culture e colture, leggende e certamente anche di piante officinali. ------------------------------------- Se volete restare in contatto con noi potete farlo così... Federica Ramacciotti sito: www.federicaramacciotti.com instagram: federicaramacciotti.atelier Hyperborea sito: www.hyperboreafarm.it instagram: hyperborea_farm ------------------------------------- Il libro che è stato nominato è La rivoluzione del filo di paglia di Masanobu Fukuoka (non vi metto il link, andate a comprarlo nella vostra libreria di fiducia;))

Tous les jours, que nous habitions en ville ou à la campagne, nous passons quelques minutes voire quelques heures à piétiner un monde invisible. Ses petits habitants se cachent sous nos pieds et vivent dans l'obscurité. Et pourtant, ce monde là est essentiel au nôtre. Sans ces micro-organismes qui nettoient, décomposent et explorent le sol, il serait impossible de nous nourrir tous les jours ! Alors pour leur faire honneur aujourd'hui, je reçois Benoit de la Ferme de Cagnolle. Benoit s'est installé il y a plus de 10 ans maintenant en tant que maraîcher et pratique plus précisément le maraichage sur sol vivant ou MSV. Cette méthode a pour vocation de préserver et d'enrichir la vie du sol et de travailler en équipe avec tous les acteurs de ce monde sous-terrain. Alors chez Benoit, pas de travail mécanique du sol, pas d'engrais chimiques, juste quelques bonnes pratiques et un peu de patience... Voilà ce qui lui a permis de rendre sa ferme fertile et résiliente ! Dans cet épisode, je te propose donc d'explorer et de comprendre ce qui se cache sous nos pieds et d'apprendre comment travailler non pas contre mais avec cette vie grouillante et passionnante ! Bonne écoute !

On Monday 28 September, one of this country's most brilliant and long-standing documentary series, Australian Story, featured regenerative farmer and best-selling author, Charles Massy AO. Charles' extraordinary book, ‘Call of the Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture, A New Earth' has been described by Paul Hawken as “a definitive masterpiece that takes its place along with the writings of Aldo Leopold, Wendell Berry, Masanobu Fukuoka, Humberto Maturana, and Michael Pollan. No work has more brilliantly defined regenerative agriculture and the breadth of its restorative impact upon human health, biodiversity, climate, and ecological intelligence.”  Charles writes and talks about the growing repertory of stories of what are in some cases extraordinary tales of regeneration – including his own. He also takes a look behind that regeneration, at how change happens not just in the land, but in the landscape of our minds.  This is an extract of my conversation with Charles Massy at his Severn Park farm a couple of years ago, just prior to his touring the global edition of the book. You'll hear the last half hour or so of what became episode 32, ‘An Underground Insurgency: Regenerative Agriculture & Human Transformation'. It remains one of the top handful of episodes played on this podcast, and one of my most cherished and memorable conversations. Title slide pic: New trees as part of the patchwork restoring biodiversity, ecological & farm function (Anthony James). Get more: You can hear the rest of our conversation in episode 32, ‘An Underground Insurgency: Regenerative Agriculture & Human Transformation'. You'll find a series of photos and links in the show notes there too, including to an extra with Charles - https://www.regennarration.com/episodes/032-an-underground-insurgency Watch the Australian Story episode on Charles, streaming worldwide - https://www.abc.net.au/austory/breaking-new-ground/12697330 And if you'd like to hear more from Dianne and Ian Haggerty, also featured in the Australian Story episode on Charles, listen to our recent conversation on location in the WA wheat belt - https://www.regennarration.com/episodes/068-natural-intelligence-farming Thanks to the generous supporters of this podcast, for making it possible. If you too value what you hear, and have the capacity at this time, please consider joining them by heading to our website at https://www.regennarration.com/support. Thanks for helping to keep the show going! Get in touch any time by text or audio at https://www.regennarration.com/story. And thanks for listening.

Ola people! In this episode of Getting Stoned we do the usual riff on life and then get our fingers in the dirt with some readings of 'One Straw Revolution' by Masanobu Fukuoka. This book is a must read in my view and we give a big thank you, and Rest In Peace, to Mr. Fukuoka for sharing all his wisdom and beauty with the world! And in keeping with the theme I do a cover version of Mr. John Mellencamp's song, Scarecrow, which is an all-time tune!, and thank you sir for bringing your incredible and inspiring music to the world! As always, thank you to you the listener for stopping by and taking your precious time to give a listen. I am most appreciative! Until next time.... Peace, Love & Rock and Roll, Stone --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/stonepetoskey/message

Welcome to another episode of Teen People, the podcast that shares the stories of the real people who appeared in Teen People magazine! My next guest is Preston Drum, an artist, musician and arts educator in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Preston is originally from Charlotte, North Carolina. When he was 15, Preston appeared in Teen People, in a fashion spread featuring street style from Charlotte. Alongside other young folks—who were dressed in '90s staples like black nail polish, toe rings, camisoles and baggy jeans—young Preston was photographed wearing cat-eye frames, a second-hand t-shirt and a collection of beaded necklaces. Now a dad, and husband, Preston spoke with me about the twenty years since he appeared in Teen People. He told me about his involvement with Carry On Homes, an artist collective that creates spaces for immigrants and marginalized communities to feel a sense of belonging and empowerment. https://carryonhomes.com/about We also chatted about the joys of home ownership, aging parents, and life in the suburbs. We're not old, I promise. These are just some of the things we talked about. We're not old. Podcast Notes: Preston and I had a spontaneous conversation about gardening. Preston spoke with me about his appreciation for Extension Services at American universities. These are services that provide accessible information for U.S. gardeners. Here's a page from the University of Minnesota: https://extension.umn.edu/yard-and-garden. If you're in the U.S. you can easily find your nearest Extension Service with a quick online search. Unfortunately, this isn't really a thing in Canada. Nonetheless, I regularly use the Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder to help me choose plants for my garden (Zone 6a): http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/plantfinder/plantfindersearch.aspx. Preston referred to Masanobu Fukuoka's "do-nothing" philosophy, which you can read more about in his book 'The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming'. Some of Fukuoka's principles (including seed bombing) are referred to in Mary Reynolds' book 'The Garden Awakening'. Her book discusses the role of ritual and folklore in landscape design, as well as practical design considerations, like understory and canopy planting, swales, and no-dig garden beds. http://marymary.ie/book-the-garden-awakening For more information on re-wilding, check out this website from Kingston, Ontario gardener Joyce Hostyn: https://www.rewildmycity.com. For more #GardenInspo from Canada, have a look at Tony Spencer's blog: https://www.thenewperennialist.com. Find out why Buckthorn is worse than Crabgrass and Garlic Mustard combined (yes, I said it): https://www.ontario.ca/page/common-buckthorn. Since Preston lives in Minneapolis, we talked about the aftermath of George Floyd's killing, and how he felt about Confederate monuments as a youngster in the U.S. South. "The Civil War was not that long ago," he said. I told Preston about Canada's Indian Residential Schools, where Indigenous kids were forcibly removed from their homes, and moved to boarding schools. Abuse was rampant. The last of these schools closed in 1996. Read more: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/residential-schools, and check out the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada's Calls to Action: http://trc.ca/assets/pdf/Calls_to_Action_English2.pdf. At the end of our chat, Preston referred to two former guests, Caron Levis and Atiya Jones! Find them here: https://www.caronlevis.com http://www.atiyajones.com Find Preston here: www.prestondrumstudios.com and on Instagram (prestondrumstudios). Preston (and bébé Elvis) were photographed by Shun Jie Yong. https://www.shunjyong.com I composed the intro music, while the outtro music is from Apple Inc., used on a royalty-free basis. Thank you for listening! Please review and rate this episode, and have a listen to all of the others in this series.

Today we celebrate the English naturalist who kept a journal for almost three decades. We'll also learn about the famous English novelist who loved to garden. We salute the father of American landscape architecture and his trip to Gettysburg on this day in 1863. We also recognize the Spanish woman who pioneered a system of organic gardening known as synergistic gardening. We'll hear a classic poem for gardeners. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book devoted to the ecology, evolution, and life history of solitary bees - a must-read for gardeners dedicated to learning more about our precious pollinators. And then we'll wrap things up with a Maxfield Parrish Print that is beloved by gardeners ever since it appeared on the cover of Collier's Magazine. But first, let's catch up on some Greetings from Gardeners around the world and today's curated news.   Subscribe Apple|Google|Spotify|Stitcher|iHeart   Gardener Greetings To participate in the Gardener Greetings segment, send your garden pics, stories, birthday wishes and so forth to Jennifer@theDailyGardener.org And, to listen to the show while you're at home, just ask Alexa or Google to play The Daily Gardener Podcast. It's that easy. Curated News This Five-Minute Exercise Will Make You a Better Gardener | Mary-Kate Mackey "Phyllis Helland has a simple process for doing that. Phyllis is a friend of mine who is a home gardener, and also an artist by profession. Every day she spends a few minutes observing and drawing the growth on a single plant. This is an exercise in seeing, not producing a recognizable sketch. She advises: 'If you think you don't draw well, simply switch to your non-dominant hand. I always see more when I do that because it slows me down. Or use a phone camera instead. That's more of a broad stroke, but it still helps me see. It's like being a little kid again. Kids notice things, and the adults are astonished.' Now, why would doing this simple exercise help your gardening? Phyllis says it will raise your awareness of what's growing around you—whether it's those previously unnoticed predacious bugs on the beans or a glorious unplanned flower combination. The daily observations can also deepen your knowledge."   Recently, I've started collecting cuttings from my garden to make my own potpourris and sachets. Here's is a quote from Eleanor Sinclair-Rhode about this lovely garden pastime: "No bought potpourri is so pleasant as that made from one's own garden, for the petals of the flowers one has gathered at home hold the sunshine and memories of summer, and of past summers only the sunny days should be remembered."   Do a summer check of all your irrigation systems and repair anything broken. I sooo wish I would have done this last summer. By the time I discovered a leak, we had a big water problem to address. In the garden, too much water can be just as harmful as too little. Throw in temperature extremes, and you have a perfect storm - inviting fungal and other diseases, pests, and other problems.   Alright, that's it for today's gardening news. Now, if you'd like to check out my curated news articles and blog posts for yourself, you're in luck, because I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. There's no need to take notes or search for links - the next time you're on Facebook, search for Daily Gardener Community and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group.   Important Events 1720  Today is the birthday of the English naturalist, Gilbert White. Gilbert kept a journal for almost three decades, where he recorded observations of his garden. Gilbert's observations were eventually published as a Calendar of Flora and the Garden. Then they were woven into a book called the Naturalist's Journal. People immediately recognized Gilbert had a gift for observation and for describing with vivid clarity the natural world. Here's a little of what Gilbert wrote in his journal on this day in 1781; his 61st birthday: "Farmers complain that their wheat is blighted. In the garden at Dowland's,... stands a large Liriodendrum tulipifera ("LEER-EE-OH-den-drum TOO-lip-IF-er-ah"), or tulip-tree, which was in flower. The soil is poor sand but produces beautiful pendulous Larches. Mr. R's garden... abounds in fruit, and in all manner of good and forward kitchen-crops. Many China-asters this spring seeded themselves there... some cucumber-plants also grew-up of themselves from the seeds of a rejected cucumber thrown aside last autumn. Mr. R's garden is, at an average, a fortnight before mine." Gilbert White's journals are a treasure, and luckily we can read them for ourselves online at one of my favorite websites: NaturalhistoryofSelbourne.com.   1817  Today is the anniversary of the death of the author and gardener Jane Austen. Jane loved gardens. She had a heart for ornamentals, herbs, and kitchen gardening. And, her family always had a garden - growing their food and beautifying their homes with flowers. In every one of her books, Jane included gardens. We know from Jane's letters to her sister Cassandra that gardens brought her joy, and they were also regulating. In 1807, Jane wrote about the redesign of her garden which included syringia or mock orange and laburnum - a small tree with beautiful hanging yellow flowers in spring, which is how it got the common golden chain or golden rain: "I could not do without a syringa... We talk also of a laburnum. The border under the terrace wall is clearing away to receive currants and gooseberry bushes, and a spot is found very proper for raspberries." In 1814, Jane wrote about the garden outside the rented room where she was staying, "The garden is quite a love... I live in the room downstairs; it is particularly pleasant...opening upon the garden. I go and refresh myself every now and then, and then come back to solitary coolness."   1863  It was on this day that the father of American landscape architecture, Frederick Law Olmsted, walked the battlefield of Gettysburg - just 15 days after the battle. Olmsted was the General Secretary of the United States Sanitary Commission (USSC) - overseeing the support of sick and wounded soldiers of the United States Army during the Civil War. There were times when Olmsted personally treated the battlefield wounds of soldiers. Olmsted was recruited for the job based on his success in designing and overseeing New York City's Central Park, one of the country's most significant public works projects. A week after the battle at Gettysburg, Olmsted arranged for 40 tons of supplies to flow into Gettysburg every day - bringing in items like surgeon's silk, fans, butter, shoes, and crutches. On this day in 1863, the scene had settled down enough that Olmsted could walk the fields of Gettysburg. In Martin's biography of Olmsted, he shared that Olmsted, "was struck by the scale of the place; everything had happened across distances far greater than he had supposed." Ever attuned to the landscape, Olmsted also noted that, "The hills were gentle and rolling, so very out of kilter with the carnage that was everywhere still in evidence... Olmsted came across spent shells and twisted bayonets, broken-down wagons, and half-buried dead horses. Particularly touching, to Olmsted, was the random strew of Union and Confederate caps, often together on the ground, shot through with bullet holes."   1937  Today is the birthday of the Spanish woman who pioneered a system of organic gardening known as synergistic gardening - Emilia Hazelip. Emilia was born in Barcelona. As a young adult, she embraced communal living and was part of the hippie movement. She managed to make her way to California, where she worked on ecological farms. At the time, Ruth Stout's no-work gardening and Alan Chadwick's raised bed concept were gaining traction. In 1977, Masanobu Fukuoka's ("MAH-SIN-oh-boo FOO-ku-OH-KAH") book, "The One-Straw Revolution" was translated into English. Emilia got a copy, read it, and immediately set about applying the principles in her own garden. By the time Emilia started tinkering with Fukuoka's principles, she was 40 years old, and she had been gardening for about 17 years. The gardening system she devised became known as synergistic gardening, and it was a mashup of Fukuoka's ideas and elements of permaculture. Emilia was the perfect person to come up with synergistic gardening; She was attuned to nature, and he questioned the effectiveness of human methods that altered natural systems. YouTube has a great video of Emilia, showing how she creates an edible vegetable garden. She says, "The work of Fukuoka was proof that my intuition was right, meaning that working the land is not necessary. However, when I started to reproduce it, the results I obtained were so poor that I quickly understood the need to modify and adapt his system to other cultural and climatic conditions; this is how it was born what I decided to call Synergic Agriculture." Back in 2012, Monica Brandies wrote an excellent article on Emilia that was featured in the Tampa Tribune. Here are some highlights. "I've watched [a DVD of The Synergistic Garden with Emilia Hazelip twice and learned some new ideas that Rosalind [Baker] is already using with success. Hazelip [says] the following: Don't worry about fertilizer. Don't disturb the soil any more than necessary - no tilling or digging, no stepping that compacts the soil. [This way,] the earthworms and microorganisms in the soil can work with multiplied efficiency. And instead of the soil wearing out as it does in modern agriculture, it gets better year by year. Cut down on compost. Hazelip uses no compost except in potting soil in flats in the greenhouse. Elevate beds. Hazelip's beds are elevated 10 to 30 inches by digging deeper paths and piling the soil upon beds that are 4 feet wide, so it's possible to reach the center without stepping in. Her paths are 20 inches wide. Cover the soil with mulch. The beds are always covered with organic mulch straw in her case, leaves in mine. But I have sinned by leaving some soil bare. I will try never to do that again. Nature always keeps the soil covered. Hazelip pulls back the mulch to add seeds or transplants but pushes it back right away around the transplants... Hazelip removes spent plants by cutting them off just above ground level, so the roots stay in the ground very important. Then the part of the plant you don't eat is laid on top as additional mulch. Over the years, you need less and less mulch. Use the weeds you pull. Weeds are pulled out by the roots and laid in the path until they are dead. Then they are added to the mulch. Obviously, she doesn't have any of the invasive vines we have here, but they are the only ones I will have to bag up and discard. At first, such beds need hand weeding as much as any beds, but as the years go by, they need less and less weeding. Hazelip used a spoon to plant some of her transplants and a trowel for the ones that needed a larger hole, but that was the extent of her digging. I am now doing all this as much as possible. It is never too late to learn."   Unearthed Words The gardener does not love to talk.  He makes me keep the gravel walk;  And when he puts his tools away.  He locks the door and takes the key. He digs the flowers, green, red, and blue.  Nor wishes to be spoken to. He digs the flowers and cuts the hay.  And never seems to want to play. Silly gardener! Summer goes, And winter comes with pinching toes,  When in the garden bare and brown  You must lay your barrow down. Well now, and while the summer stays  To profit by these garden days O how much wiser you would be To play at Indian wars with me! — Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist and poet, The Gardener from a Child's Garden of Verses   Grow That Garden Library The Solitary Bees by Bryan N. Danforth, Robert L. Minckley, John L. Neff, and Frances Fawcett This book came out in August of 2019, and the subtitle is Biology, Evolution, Conservation. The author Alexandra-Maria Klein said, "This book is a comprehensive most up-to-date resource on the biology and evolution of solitary bees. . . . People reading this book will likely further educate their friends, children, or colleagues by sharing stories about the interesting natural history of solitary bees they learned by reading across this book. By doing this, an increasing number of people will ultimately contribute to protecting nature and biodiversity." And, Stephen Fleming, said, "In the many vignettes and case studies throughout the text, the wonders of solitary bees are revealed. . . . I expect to return to this book to learn more about the truly incredible world of bees for a long time to come." The book is a whopping 488 pages devoted to the ecology, evolution, and life history of solitary bees - a must-read for gardeners dedicated to learning more about our precious pollinators. You can get a copy of The Solitary Bees by Bryan N. Danforth, Robert L. Minckley, John L. Neff, and Frances Fawcett and support the show, using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for around $31.   Today's Botanic Spark 1908  On this day, the Maxfield Parrish Print, called The Botanist, appeared on the cover of Collier's Magazine. Parrish's image shows a full-length profile of a man wearing a long botanical green coat. In his raised right hand, he is holding a plant, and in his left hand, he is clutching a magnifying glass. Some opened reference books are tucked under his arm. He has a specimen case slung over his back. The classic image was made into poster-sized prints in the 1970s. It's one of my favorite pieces of botanical art.

Eleonora Giuliodori, giardiniera marchigiana lavora in Inghilterra nell'orto biologico di Le Manoir Aux Quat'Saisons ristorante ed albergo vicino Oxford, dove lo chef patron è il francese Raymond Blanc. Precedentemente Eleonora ha lavorato presso i Kew Gardens di Londra, al giardino di Cliveden nel Buckinghamshire e al giardino di Polesden Lacey nel Surrey. I giardini che Eleonora consiglia di visitare sono Great Dixter e Gravetye Manor entrambi nel Sussex. I libri consigliati da Eleonora sono: "A Little Hystory of British Gardening" Di Jenny Huglow e "La rivoluzione del filo di paglia" di Masanobu Fukuoka. Grazie Jennifer, Heloise e Annah per La Marsigliese iniziale! Per commenti, suggerimenti e domande scrivete a enricodella@gmail.com FB: Enrico Della - Pagina FB: Life in the garden. Instagram: @enricodella23

The big story of never-ending Progress has captured our imaginations for hundreds of years. But now we seem to be witnessing its unravelling. The search for other stories is no longer a fringe activity, but taking place in all parts of society. What do we want to keep from this story, and what do we leave behind? In this episode we explore the idea of Progress together with writer Dougald Hine. Ten years ago, Dougald co-founded The Dark Mountain Project, which has grown into world-wide community of artists and writers. He and his partner Anna Björkman now run A School Called Home, a learning community for those drawn to the work of regrowing a living culture. He also podcasts together with futurist Ed Gillespie at The Great Humbling. LINKS TO THINGS WE TALKED ABOUT: Dougald's site: dougald.nu. A School Called Home: aschoolcalledhome.org. The Dark Mountain Project: dark-mountain.net. The Great Humbling: thegreathumbling.libsyn.com. Dougald's interview with Vanessa Andreotti: dougald.nu/the-vital-compass-a-conversation-with-vanessa-andreotti/ . Walter Mignolo: The Darker Side of Western Modernity: www.dukeupress.edu/The-Darker-Side-of-Western-Modernity/ . A World of Many Worlds, ed. Marisol de la Cadena and Mario Blaser: www.dukeupress.edu/a-world-of-many-worlds . The Zapatista Movement: www.thoughtco.com/zapatistas-4707696. Masanobu Fukuoka's One Straw Revolution: onestrawrevolution.net. Follow us and stay in touch! Facebook and Instagram handle: @forestofthought . Web: forestofthought.com. Email: ingrid@forestofthought.com. MUSIC by Christian Steen at stoneproduction.no.

In dieser Folge widmen wir uns einem der Bausteine für ein neues Wohlstandsmodell: dem Thema Landwirtschaft. Konkret der Nichts-Tun-Landwirtschaft die durch Masanobu Fukuoka entwickelt und bekannt wurde. Wir besprechen dazu sein Buch „Der Große Weg hat kein[nbsp] Tor“, erklären, was die Nichts-Tun-Landwirtschaft eigentlich ist und geben natürlich auch die Antwort auf die Frage, was denn mit dem Großen Weg gemeint ist. Fukuokas Art Landwirtschaft zu betreiben steht im krassen Kontrast zur globalen industriellen Landwirtschaft und ist doch so zukunftsweisend. Die Einfachheit seiner Methode ist bestechend und überzeugend zugleich. Fukuokas Wirken war so wichtig, dass seine Erfahrungen und Erkenntnisse unbedingt in der Diskussion über landwirtschaftliche Alternativen mitgedacht werden müssen. Von Herzen Vegan unterstützen https://von-herzen-vegan.de/unterstuetzen Komm in den Von Herzen Vegan Clan: clan.vonherzenvegan.de Die Links zur Folge findest Du hier: https://von-herzen-vegan.de/podcastfolgen/folge-201-der-grosse-weg-hat-kein-tor-von-masanobu-fukuoka

This is the first of many shows specially exploring different themes in Permaculture and related fields with archival audio clips. I am excited to start this series of shows about the work of a wise sage from Japan named Masanobu Fukuoka and discuss what 'Natural Farming' is all about... "The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings."

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Pierre est maraîcher depuis 40 ans. S'inspirant des pionniers de l'agriculture résiliente que sont Emilia Hazelip, Masanobu Fukuoka ou Claude Bourguignon, il enrichit sa pratique agricole d'année en année. Avec lui nous avons parlé du cheminement nécessaire pour s'affranchir des diktats de l'agriculture conventionnelle, de la crise du monde agricole et du soutien citoyens que nous pourrions offrir aux agriculteurs.

It's another Shortie with Jade and Catie!This week, we plate up an assortment of our favourite books, films and thinkers. In the spirit of sharing life-changing and mind-altering resources (books > drugs), we chat about our bibles of regenerative living, homesteading, futuresteading, farming and thinking - that we reckon you'll love, too.Oh, and having a buddy to read along with is a powerful way to absorb and discuss the merits of new knowledge, solidify it, and develop a shared mental library.The audio is a little scratchy in parts thanks to recording in two separate locations, but we know you'll understand! Social distancing and all that.And one book we didn't mention - which was totally remiss but rectifiable right here, right now - is “The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction To Natural Farming" by Masanobu Fukuoka. It's a foundational must-read for anyone wanting to live like tomorrow matters. It teaches you to think. Not what to think but to think in the first place, and that's a bloody grand spot to begin. Find links below to everything mentioned. We’d love to hear your favourite resources over on Insta or Facebook.GET YOUR TEETH INTO:Charles Eisenstein - Author, Speaker, Thinker (Catie's faves: "Climate - A New Story" and "The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible")David Fleming - Author (in particular, “Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy”)Grown & Gathered - Matt & Lentil Purbrick The Village - Matt & Lentil PurbrickMilkwood : Real Skills for Down to Earth Living - Kirsten Bradley and Nick RittarLow Tox Life - Alexx StuartThe Biggest Estate on Earth - Bill GammageDark Emu - Bruce PascoeDoctor Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World - Mudrooroo NyoongahThe Holistic Orchard - Michael PhillipsMycorrhizal Planet - Michael PhillipsThe Carbon Farming Solution - Eric ToensmeierThe Bio Integrated Farm - Shawn JadrnicekChelsea Green Publishing - Facebook and WebsiteThe Soil and Health - Sir Albert HowardThe Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan

Episode #35 of the Ground Shots Podcast features a conversation with Kollibri terre Sonnenblume, recorded in rural southern New Mexico last month in his outdoor kitchen, surrounded by friendly feral cats. I visited with Kollibri last month, where he is currently living, gardening and writing. He gave me a few of his books to read through, and after I read much of them, we got together to record this conversation. His books and zines are well written, thought out and researched and touch on topics like colonialism, history, plants, agriculture, ethnobotany, politics and more. Kollibri terre Sonnenblume is a writer, photographer, tree hugger, animal lover, and dissident. Past experiences include urban bike farmer, Indymedia activist, and music critic. Kollibri holds a BA in “Writing Fiction & Non-fiction” from the St. Olaf Paracollege in Northfield, Minnesota.   In this conversation with Kollibri, we talk about: the pros and con's of permaculture wild-tending as not just using knowledge from the past but adapting to a changing world some connections between patriarchy, organized religion and slavery the blurry line between gatherer-hunter life-ways and small scale agriculture horticulture vs. agriculture some history of agriculture, the negative impacts of agriculture on health and culture Kollibri's various books and zines on farming, wild-tending, ‘invasive' plants, and place-based travel questioning victorian ideas of gatherer-hunter culture and the transition to agriculture the importance of an interdisciplinary approach and looking at things from many angles, avoiding 'silo'ing when possible the importance of practicing small scale agriculture with the fragmented ecology and culture we have right now the racist origins of wilderness, national parks and public lands, and the continued racism in these institutions or ideas what to expect from Kollibri's new podcast 'Voices For Nature and Peace'   Links: Kollibri's website: Macska Moksha Press, where you can buy his books, read his latest articles Kollibri on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kollibri.terre.sonnenblume Kollibri on instagram: @kollibri1969 One of Kollibri's latest articles: A Question of Identity: How Much Does Queerness Matter in a Crisis? Download the free pdf zine “The Troubles of Invasive Plants'“ here ‘The One Straw Revolution' by Masanobu Fukuoka, mentioned in the podcast Blog post for this episode: https://www.ofsedgeandsalt.com/ground-shots-podcast/kollibri Support the podcast on Patreon to contribute to our grassroots self-funding of this project.  Support the Ground Shots Project with a one time donation via Paypal at: paypal.me/petitfawn    Our website with backlog of episodes, plant profiles, travelogue and more: http://www.ofsedgeandsalt.com  Our Instagram page @goldenberries Join the Ground Shots Podcast Facebook Group to discuss the episodes Subscribe to our newsletter for updates on the Ground Shots Project Theme music: 'Sweat and Splinters' by Mother Marrow Interstitial Music: ‘Thank You for Treating Me Like a Melody Drawn in the Air' by B.E.N. and Fay Petree Hosted by: Kelly Moody Produced by: Kelly Moody and Opia Creative

For this episode I sat down with Stacey Toews, husband, father, humanitarian, ecological steward, and my friend. Stacey is undoubtedly one of the greatest humans I know. He is kind, generous, passionate, intelligent, talented, and a person who makes me better just by being in his company. Stacey is co-founder of Level Ground Trading, a Victoria-based company engaged directly with small-scale farmer groups. Annually they purchase the harvests of more than 5,000 organic, family farms. Level Ground sources everything from coffee and tea to dried fruit, cane sugar, and spices. The 23-year-old company emphasizes bright futures for farmers, sustainability in business, and being ‘the coffee that connects you'. We explore his company ethos and Stacey's decades'-long journey in educating about beyond fair-trade practices. We discuss entrepreneurial disappointments and successes. We also look beyond Level Ground into Stacey's personal life and pervasive passion for sustainability. Through his small-scale family farm in and his YouTube channel, Sustainable Stace, he is educating people about growing their own organic food. Stacey and his wife Laurie have 4 children, 3 of whom were adopted from Haiti. We talk about how adoption and fatherhood have impacted Stacey and helped him to learn to calibrate his intensity. And we also briefly talk about Stacey's love for cycling and running, and now his new passion of longbow archery. Last year Stacey joined me on a retreat where we made our own longbows out of Pacific Yew, and we regularly shoot together. If Stacey does not inspire you to cultivate the best version of you, then I missed my interviewing target. Episode Links: Level Ground Trading: https://levelground.com/ Sustainable Stace: sustainablestace.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/youcangrowityourself Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sustainablestace/# Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDsYtrjT8beVeQ6twgvFYMw Canadian Foundation for the Children of Haiti: https://www.cfchcanada.ca Factfulness by Hans Rosling: gapminder.org One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka: https://onestrawrevolution.net/ Pacific Rim College School of Permaculture Design: https://www.pacificrimcollege.com/faculties-programs/program/permaculture-design-and-resilient-ecosystems-diploma/ Bow Building Leadership Retreat: https://www.anchorpointexpeditions.com/bow-building-retreat Learning Links: Continuing Education Permaculture Courses: https://www.pacificrimcollege.com/faculties-programs/school-of-continuing-education/continuing-education/ Online Permaculture Courses: https://pacificrimcollege.online/course-category/natural-building/ Permaculture, Place-Making, and Planet Repair with Mark Lakeman: https://www.pacificrimcollege.com/workshops/event/permaculture-place-making-and-planet-repair-3/

Root Simple reader Pat just informed me of the passing of Larry Korn, who was a guest on our podcast in October of 2015. Larry was probably best known as the translator of Masanobu Fukuoka’s One Straw Revolution but that underestimates what he did in his life. Larry, almost single highhandedly, is responsible for bringing […]

The Yoga Voice is biweekly podcast by CITYOGA, this week host Dave Sims E-RYT 500, owner CITYOGA School of Yoga & Health interviews Thai-Fascia practitioner, digital yogi nomad, traveling teacher, Latenia "Latin" Caldwell aka YogiLatin, CEO of YogiLatin. We examine YogiLatin's twenty plus years of teaching and practicing yoga in the central Indiana area. We discuss the lessons and wisdom she has gleaned from working to bring yoga to people of color. We talked about her world travels and in particular her transformative journey to Mysore India. Plus, an in depth look into her life challenges with children, family, relationships and much more. Find out more about YogiLatin through the links below. Hope you enjoy our chat, please subscribe to The Yoga Voice and feel free to leave a comment and or suggestions for upcoming episodes, Namaste.https://www.facebook.com/LaTeniaLaTinCaldwell/https://www.instagram.com/yogilatin/https://www.youtube.com/user/BreathMovementBook mentioned in this podcast:One-Straw Revolutionary: The Philosophy and Work of Masanobu Fukuoka

This episode is close to my heart, it really exemplifies the journey I've been on in the last year.Join us today as I talk to Larry Korn who was one of Masanobu Fukuoka's students 40 years ago, and is now an author, teacher, and natural farmer. Larry shares his story of how he came to be a student of Fukuoka, and his adventure since.We talk about philosophy and the wisdom of nature as well as compare Fukuoka's Natural Farming to methods of organic agriculture such as Korean Natural Farming and Permaculture.We also discuss how Natural Farming is in line with the philosophies of indigenous peoples and how some of the main elements are humility and gratefulness. This resonates with me deeply, and I hope it stirs something in you.Thanks again to everyone who is supporting the podcast in some way. If the message in this podcast has benefited you in any way, share your experience with us and your friends!May the beneficial microbes be with you…Larry Korn's book: One-Straw Revolutionary: The Philosophy and Work of Masanobu FukuokaLarry's website about Masanobu Fukuoka, Natural Farming, and more: www.onestrawrevolution.netIf you want to connect with Larry direct, he has given his email: ldkorn@gmail.comMasanobu Fukuoka's books:Shizen Nōhō — Wara Ippon no Kakumei - Japanese edition of The One-Straw RevolutionThe One-Straw Revolution — An Introduction to Natural Farming - Translated English editionSowing Seeds in the Desert: Natural Farming, Global Restoration, and Ultimate Food SecurityThe Natural Way of Farming: The Theory and Practice of Green Philosophy (free pdf)The Road Back to Nature: Regaining the Paradise Lost (pdf)See Also:Fukuoka Masanobu Shizen Nōen (Masanobu Fukuoka's Natural Farm) Official website.Final Straw: Food, Earth, Happiness, documentary by Patrick Lydon and Suhee Kang.SHOW NOTES:Traveled to Japanmet a nice ladytraveled to different back to the land communesthe bozoku - the future primitiveswhen back in America, Larry did soil science and plant nutrition at Berkleyended up going back to Japan with no plan and living on Masanobu Fukuoka's farm for two yearsWhat does do nothing farming meanFukuoka's backgroundtrying to improve on naturenatural farming is about getting back to our natural mind, our natural way of livinghelp nature get whole again so it could fulfil its destiny of providing conditions to foster lifebuilding natural diversitygetting crop yields equal to or better than conventional farminggrowing trees from seed - maintaining genetic diversitypeople can never understand nature - there's no need to understandjust enjoy being with the plants in naturenatures design - getting human intellect out of designing a farmFukuoka's philosophy is almost identical to what indigenous cultures were doingtalking with the plants and animals, and trying things outthey had humility and gratitude - this is what we're missingarrogance is not the way of natural farmingtry things out then listen - nature points out the direction to gocame back to the U.S. with the One Straw Revolution manuscriptlandscaping in San Franciscomoved to Ashland, Oregonwrote the book The One Straw Revolutionary - stories and teachings from his time on Fukuoka's farmLarry has edited two of Fukuoka's four english books - One Straw Revolution and Sowing Seeds In The DesertFukuoka's other english books are The Natural Way Of Farming and The Road Back To Naturenatural farming is suited for orchards, and not so much market gardensnatural farming and KNF are differentLarry's wisdom is to relax, and accept things that come to you rather than graspinggo easier on yourself and do something that makes you happyPermaculture vs Natural Farming - one is design based, and the other is intuitiveobserving in permaculture is the first step to separation - the observer and the observedindigenous peoples could talk to the plants and were one with thembecome the soilonestrawrevolution.netldkorn@gmail.com

Masanobu Fukuoka's one-straw revolution inspired Krishna McKenzie to start his own organic farm in Auroville, Tamil Nadu, India. In this interview he talks about the importance of nutritional cultural identity, wild food volunteer plants, soil fertility, and collective wellbeing.

TTGL#4 Brian Interviews natural farming advocate and disciple of master farmer Masanobu Fukuoka, Larry Korn, in Larry's home in Southern Oregon. Masanobu Fukuoka wrote One Straw Revolution, a treatise on natural farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge - Larry translated it and continues to spread the word of his sensei to this day.

Charles Massy has become an extraordinary hub of knowledge, wisdom and stories of regeneration. Specifically, in regenerative agriculture, and alongside that, the art of human transformation. His latest book 'Call of the Reed Warbler' continues to make an enormous impact in Australia, and Charles has just embarked on an overseas tour behind the release of an updated international edition. Paul Hawken appears on the inside sleeve, saying this about the book: “Charles Massy has written a definitive masterpiece that takes its place along with the writings of Aldo Leopold, Wendell Berry, Masanobu Fukuoka, Humberto Maturana, and Michael Pollan. No work has more brilliantly defined regenerative agriculture and the breadth of its restorative impact upon human health, biodiversity, climate, and ecological intelligence.”  Charles writes and talks about the growing repertory of stories of what are in some cases extraordinary tales of regeneration – including his own. He also takes a look behind that regeneration, at how change happens not just in the land, but in the landscape of our minds.  Charles and Anthony pulled up a pew at the farm, Severn Park, a few weeks ago, for this conversation.  Music: By Jeremiah Johnson Due to licencing restrictions, our guest's nominated music can only be played on radio or similarly licenced broadcasts of this episode. We hope podcast licencing falls into line with this soon. Get more: Tune into our Special Extra with Charles, #032 Extra: Cultivating Regeneration from Industrial Wastelands - https://www.regennarration.com/episodes/032-extra-cultivating-regeneration-from-industrial-wastelands For more on Charles & Call of the Reed Warbler, see the original Australian edition - https://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/book.aspx/1445/Call%20of%20the%20Reed%20Warbler And the updated Chelsea Green international edition - https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/call-of-the-reed-warbler/ ​ Podcast 25 The New Megafauna, on Kachana Station (one of our most popular podcasts) Podcast 16 Grassroots Revolution, with Charles alongside David & Frances from Wooleen Station at our feature forum back in February 2018 Podcast 14 on Drawdown, with Paul Hawken Thanks to all our supporters for enabling the production of this podcast. If you too value what you hear, please consider joining them by heading to our website at www.regennarration.com/support. Thanks for helping to keep the show going! And thanks for listening.

Para difundir la información necesaria que nos ayude a construir hábitos de compra saludables, creo que debemos conocer los métodos de cultivo que podemos elegir de entre nuestros distribuidores de alimentos vegetales. Hoy os presentamos al que más nos gusta, al más respetuoso y colaborador con las dinámicas de la naturaleza: El Método de agricultura natural de Masanobu Fukuoka y me acompaña José María Peiró, ingeniero forestal. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/diana-valeria/message

El método de agricultura natural fue creado, o descubierto, o bautizado así por Masanobu Fukuoka, ingeniero japonés que ejerció de agricultor en su japón natal y en muchos otros países. Este método tiene la particularidad de ser simbiótico con la naturaleza y respetar sus ciclos, acciones y procesos por encima de todas las cosas. Obtiene muy buenos resultados y pienso que es necesario que todos conozcamos cómo se obtienen los productos que utilizamos a diario.

This week, I had the pleasure of interviewing Steve Groff, a farmer and cover crop pioneer who has also worked with the University of Maryland on extensive cover crop research. Steve founded Cover Crop Coaching in 2016 and has spoken to audiences across North America, Europe, Australia, Japan, and many other parts of the world on the use of cover crops across the full range of agricultural applications. In this episode, we talk about important management tools to incorporate with cover crops, the causes of erosion in a soil system, and how farmers can supply consumer demand for nutritional value. We also discuss farm economics, the books Steve read that started him in cover cropping and a step by step guide for growers who want to start developing healthy soil.     Support For This Show & Helping You Grow This show is brought to you by AEA, leaders in regenerative agriculture since 2006. If you are a large-scale grower looking to increase crop revenue and quality, email hello@advancingecoag.com or call 800-495-6603 extension 344 to be connected with a dedicated AEA crop consultant.       Resources recommended by Steve Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life by David R. Montgomery The Biological Farmer: A Complete Guide to the Sustainable & Profitable Biological System of Farming by Gary F. Zimmer Stubble Over the Soil: The Vital Role of Plant Residue in Soil Management to Improve Soil Quality by Carlos Corvetto Lamarca The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming by Masanobu Fukuoka     Episode 7 - Steve Groff - Highlights 3:00 - What are some of the memorable moments that have lead Steve to where he is today? Steve started no till in the early 80’s - Solely to stop soil erosion A key moment for Steve was 3 years into doing no till - He noticed his soil was beginning to “mellow out” Today we can transfer to no till much faster than ever before In 1995 Steve started researching cover crops - he noticed after a drought year that he had 28 bushels more of corn preceding the previous 3 years Steve is all-in on cover crops!   8:20 - Erosion is a symptom of a bigger problem Healthier soil isn’t going to blow or wash away We don’t have a runoff problem, we have a water infiltration problem Steve is encouraged by seeing mainstream agriculture start to clue in   10:00 - Can we completely resolve erosion with the use of cover crops? We can greatly reduce it Not just cover crops - there are many other practices however they are a key component. Cover crops are a tool - you need to manage them properly Having a living root in the soil as long as possible is important Having diversity of species is important - we can enhance this with cover crops! Less/zero soil disturbance is important   12:30 - What are some of the other important tools farmers should incorporate? Fertility management - (Ex: Avoid anhydrous ammonia, high salt fertilizers) Once you get your soil functioning, you can start unlocking things that were locked before, such as allowing more access to certain minerals Steve isn’t saying everyone needs to be no till - but does advocate it. Tillage is a destructive event   15:10 - How important is it to have a diversity of cover crops? There is a time and a place for single species cover crops Steve always plants mixed species You have to play around and see what works on your farm! How many species do you need? Going beyond 6-8; advantages start to level off. Mixed species doesn’t necessarily have to be expensive Cover crop mixes can be thought of as a “one plus one equals three” solution   20:30 - What is something that Steve has puzzled over? The link to human health from how we grow plants and nutrient density Steve noticed that the USDA doesn’t say how they establish the averages for nutritional value Steve is looking into creating branding for nutritional basis   26:00 - Does Steve believe it is possible that farmers will be compensated for growing quality Generally, Steve thinks yes. Majority of plant genetics are made for yield - so it may take awhile to get right There are some plant breeders that are now breeding for quality over yield   30:50 - Buyers care about flavor and aroma - These are the same markers of nutrient density Flavor and aroma is what makes repeat customers These can also be traced back to plant genetics and breeding - it’s important to build from the ground up Big similarities between microbiome of our gut and the microbiome of soil   35:50 - What is something that has surprised Steve in his work? The importance of soil health - What tools like cover crops and no tillage are capable of Once you get the system working, you don’t need as much input! Steve expects to continue being surprised as he tries to discover more   38:00 - What does Steve believe to be true about agriculture that many others do not? Reducing input is not going to lead to “mining out” the soil That the use of insecticides and fungicides can be reduced “Would you take chemo to prevent cancer?”   41:40 - What does Steve believe to be the biggest opportunity in agriculture today? Cycles always come and go Regenerative agriculture and growing with reduced input Steve believes there is a bright future ahead   45:00 - What is a book or resource that Steve would recommend? Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life by David R. Montgomery The Biological Farmer: A Complete Guide to the Sustainable & Profitable Biological System of Farming by Gary F. Zimmer Stubble Over the Soil: The Vital Role of Plant Residue in Soil Management to Improve Soil Quality by Carlos Corvetto Lamarca The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming by Masanobu Fukuoka   46:50 - What ideas or technology is Steve excited about for the future of agriculture? Advancement on cover crop equipment   50:10 - Is Steve having fun? YES! Steve finds it fulfilling to help farmers and being a steward of God’s earth   51:10 - What would Steve recommend to a farmer starting down this path today? Ask: What do you want to accomplish? Good to prioritise when you’re new Time of year will determine species to plant Only apply a new practice to the amount of plants you can afford to lose Learn all you can - Talk to and follow those who are achieving what you want to do   54:40 - What does Steve wish John had asked? How the economics work out - “How can I do this, and flourish?”   56:20 - What has been the economic impact of cover crops on Steve’s operations? Looking at 5 years - Fertilizer went down 50%, and chemicals went down 37%   58:20 - What was the cost of these results? Growing your own cover crops cuts down on cost 60-80 lbs of nitrogen instead of 175-200 lbs Average corn yield is between 185-200 For pumpkins: Can cut nitrogen rate to 45-50 lbs      Feedback & Booking Please send your feedback, requests for topics or guests, or booking request have a Podcast episode recorded LIVE at your event -- to production@regenerativeagriculturepodcast.com. You can email John directly at John@regenerativeagriculturepodcast.com.     Sign Up For Special Updates To be alerted via email when new episodes are released, and get special updates about John speaking, teaching, and podcast LIVE recordings, be sure to sign up for our email list.  

MASANOBU FUKUOKA'S manifesto for natural farming ONE-STRAW REVOLUTION (1975) was as much a revelation to me as it has been for millions of readers worldwide. It has been translated into more languages than can be accounted for, and is regarded as one of the essential titles for PERMACULTURE practitioners. Its blending of straight-forward instruction, hard-won life examples, and Zen-like wisdom has captivated audiences in the way that no other book on sustainable agriculture can touch. "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 Subsequent books THE NATURAL WAY OF FARMING and my personal favorite SOWING SEEDS IN THE DESERT continued Fukuoka's energetic command of his craft: allowing nature to do what it does best with little or no effort for control by human beings. For this episode of FARM ON, I am lucky enough to speak with the man who lived on Fukuoka's farm in the '70's and then translated his book for English-speakers, LARRY KORN. Larry talks about getting assistance from WENDELL BERRY, his life as a young farm-wanderer in rural japan, and his continued work spreading the good word of natural farming as well as his other projects conducting workshops and helping contemporary authors of the same ilk. Larry's story is told in his book ONE-STRAW REVOLUTIONARY, which serves as a valuable companion to its literary namesake, and decodes Fukuoka's eastern spiritualistic way for the Western reader. Learn more at http://www.onestrawrevolution.net FARM ON is accepting sponsorship to pay for hosting the show and for an embarrassingly excessive coffee habit. Contact me on Twitter @FarmOnDharma or good old email dharmaonthefarm@gmail.com

What's the best way to build communities that last? “Do nothing,” pat comes the reply from Zainab Bawa, the CEO of HasGeek. Bawa’s inspiration is Masanobu Fukuoka, a famous Japanese author of bestselling books including “The One Straw Revolution” and “The Natural Way of Farming.” Fukuoka is famous for his “do nothing” philosophy, In this episode of Outliers, I sat down with Zainab to learn about building communities and handling conflicts. She also discussed the need to take the diversity debate beyond just gender, and include the trans genders too.

Natural Farming" is as much a life philosophy as a way of farming. Larry Korn has dedicated his life to teaching Natural Farming, which he learned from his mentor, the late, great Masanobu Fukuoka, author of One-Straw Revolution. This "no-method method"arose from a spiritual revelation Fukuoka had about healing the rift between humans and the natural world. Larry likens Natural Farming to indigenous agriculture, emphasizing relationship and humility instead of intellect and control. The reward is abundant food and an authentic life. Larry Korn helped translate One-Straw Revolution and Fukuoka's other books into English. He also traveled with Fukuoka-san in the US, and Larry's own book, One-Straw Revolutionary, shares what he learned living and working on Fukuoka's farm in Japan. We talk about: -Why Fukuoka, who trained as a plant scientist, railed against science -What Fukuoka learned in a spiritual revelation about Nature -Why Natural Farming looks counterintuitive; the indigenous idea -How this path differs from permaculture, which Larry also studied with its co-founder Bill Mollison -How Larry has brought this philosophy into his daily life -How Fukuoka's work dispels the idea that only hunter-gatherers, not farmers, could live in harmony with Nature -Why Fukuoka's high yields with "no-work" methods challenge the need for technology We ended our rich conversation once the neighbor cranked up the lawn mower—you'll just hear a few seconds of weed whacker at the end, but it's worth it. FREE BOOKS! From June 1 to June 15, 2017, you can get free downloads of up to 20 ebooks on Nature and the environment (including mine, Songs That Are to Come: An Ex-Catholic, A Sacred Earth, and the Nuns Who Reunited Them). There's nonfiction, fiction, and childrens' books from scientists, poets, and activists--don't miss it! http://wildpolitics.co/20authors Music in this episode is "A Walk With a Turtle" by Beeside, from the album, Lullabies of Love and Hate, used through a Creative Commons license.

Have the crops of today bent us to their will? Is corn king? Does our agricultural system still make sense, and can it in its current form cater to the needs of future generations? Are we smarter than a potato? In this episode, we explore how certain crops such as wheat, rice, potato, maize (corn) and soy have come to dominate our landscapes, labour, economic policy and health. We look at the transition from a hunter gatherer lifestyle to an agricultural system 12,000 years ago and observe the fascinating co-evolution of plants and human beings.   Links: Lee & Devore (1966) Man the Hunter (birth of Original Affluent Society theory) Jared Diamond (1987) ‘The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race’  Yuval Noah Harari (2014) ‘Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind’  Michael Pollan ‘When a crop becomes King ’New York Times  Masanobu Fukuoka (1975) – One Straw Revolution

LINKS Humus and Clay... http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-eAT John Seymour Masanobu Fukuoka Daikon radish Start your own Organic Garden: 7 tips! http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-eB5 Sustainability Through Compost Tea. http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-eDW Ten Acres Enough **** This is the World Organic News for the week ending 10th of April 2017. Jon Moore reporting! This week we focus on the soil! From the blog of LaToya M. Crick Soil Food Web Consultant comes a post on humus and clay. Quote: Clay and humus play an important role in soil structure and plant growth, however, too much of one of them is frustrating and too little of the other is a pending death sentence. What is clay? Clay in soil is a fine-grained natural rock or soil material and appears in deposits due to weatherization. ( If you are living in Brazoria County, Texas then you are living on a deposit- ha!) Clay can appear in soil in various colors from white to dull grey or brown to deep orange-red. A clay particle is finer than silt and sand and according to geologist and soil scientist,  a clay particle is less than 2 micrometer. And from further in the post: Now, what about Humus? Humus is the end product of decomposed organic matter that was had by soil microbes. It can be seen as the chocolate/black gold of the earth and acts as an anchor for soil nutrients. It appears in color ranging from dark brown to black and smells earthy and is fluffy to the touch. Humus is negatively charged and has a high cation-exchange-capacity (CEC) that helps the soil retain water and positively charged elements that are beneficial to plant health. End Quote The funny thing about clay and all soils for that matter is a thing I learned from John Seymour. It your clay content is too high, add organic matter to your soil. Organic matter, it turns out feeds and creates humus. At the other end of the soil scale: sandy soil the solution is to add (pauses for effect) organic matter which it turns out feeds and creates humus. You can see where this is heading. Clay soils have their own particular needs when it comes to incorporating organic matter. The drill in the olden days, the 1970s, was to dig deeply and bury organic matter. Can you guess what the solution is today? Yep, raised bed no-dig gardens. It turns out the soil is capable of pulling the organic matter down into the clay soils and invigorating them.  Clay pans can be a problem. That is hardened clay layers under the level at which the shovel or the plough reached. On acreage sized land units, a ripper can be employed to shatter the pan. This lets water and organic matter into the soil profile. This is especially beneficial when the rips are along the contour lines of the paddock. Masanobu Fukuoka used an alternative method the release these clay pans. He broadcast daikon radish seeds. His compacted clay problem was in an orchard so that ripping was not an option. These radishes grow upto a metre in length and as thick as a man’s forearm. By their very growth habits they loosen compacted soils. Once loosen and with organic matter spread on top, either in no-dog garden beds or spread across paddocks by slashing them or grazing them, the process of humus creation can occur. Clearly this is not a “quick fix” solution but it is one which works with Nature and her rhythms. When that occurs we are moving in the right direction. I might also add here that artificial fertilisers will destroy humic acid in very little time. This means more are needed in the next growing season and so on. The slower Natural way is less expensive too as a rule. Having sorted your soils the next step is to garden. DR. EDDY BETTERMANN MD delivered a post: Start your own Organic Garden: 7 tips! These are useful and so I’ll repeat them here to pique your interest. Have a read of the article if you need more on this. Link is, of course, in the show notes. Plan your garden before planting your crops, it’ll help you reap the best harvest possible. Less is More It may seem like a good idea to plant every edible plant that you love to eat… but it may be better to start with a small, manageable garden in the beginning. Choose Productive Plants Choose plants that grow well in your climate and geography. Think locally. Share and Barter If you buy a large packet of seeds and have extras, share with your friends and neighbors. Go Organic With Your supplies Organic seeds can be bought locally or by mail order. Do not use chemical pesticides, herbicides, or any other synthetic chemicals. Complement Your Plants Research traditional methods of natural gardening to grow plants that complement one another such as permaculture. Have Fun! Gardening can be an incredibly grounding family affair. Having your garden up and running, the question of feeding or fertilising comes to mind. The blog Permie Flix has a video post this week entitled: ECOSOIL SUSTAINABLE FARMING WITH COMPOST TEA. If that title doesn’t tick all the boxes then I don’t know what will. The video runs for some 30 plus minutes and is well worth your time. Compost teas are a specialised form of liquid fertiliser. The have their adherents and I too am one of them. A particularly interesting book: Ten Acres Enough set in the USA state of New Jersey and written in the 1870s gives a good account of how to make and use liquid fertilisers. I’ve included a link to a pdf copy of this book. Whilst it has financial figures from its time which are basically meaningless now, the how to information is useful. A word of caution, the author advocates for ploughing bare fields between produce crops to increase soil moisture. Apart from that, he makes good sense. Back to the post ECOSOIL SUSTAINABLE FARMING WITH COMPOST TEA. This video is produced with a smallholder, farmer in mind but the principles and techniques can be down scaled to the garden or you could join with fellow gardeners to create larger volumes to use amongst yourselves. I suspect a community garden would also be a good place to centrally produce these teas in bulk. They feed the humus creation process at a good rate of knots. Nudging Nature without pushing her to breaking point. So look after your soil, grow food in it and feed that soil with liquid fertilisers for a blooming good garden! And that brings us to the end of this week’s podcast. If you’ve liked what you heard, please tell everyone you know any way you can! I’d also really appreciate a review on iTunes. This may or may not help others to find us but it gives this podcaster an enormous thrill! Thanks in advance! Any suggestions, feedback or criticisms of the podcast or blog are most welcome. email me at podcast@worldorganicnews.com. Thank you for listening and I'll be back in a week. **** LINKS Humus and Clay... http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-eAT John Seymour Masanobu Fukuoka Daikon radish Start your own Organic Garden: 7 tips! http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-eB5 Sustainability Through Compost Tea. http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-eDW Ten Acres Enough

Links WORLD ORGANIC NEWS in the Australian Podcast Awards Click here   Five Notable Organic Gardening Methods | Garden Variety http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-ej0   Keyhole Garden Images https://www.google.com.au/search?q=keyhole+gardens&rlz=1C5CHFA_enAU695AU695&espv=2&biw=1296&bih=648&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjiyL_c8aTSAhXKjpQKHfEgCuQQ_AUIBigB   Hugelkultur Images https://www.google.com.au/search?q=keyhole+gardens&rlz=1C5CHFA_enAU695AU695&espv=2&biw=1296&bih=648&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjiyL_c8aTSAhXKjpQKHfEgCuQQ_AUIBigB#tbm=isch&q=hugelkultur&*   Lasagna Garden Images https://www.google.com.au/search?q=Deep+Mulch+Gardening&rlz=1C5CHFA_enAU695AU695&espv=2&biw=1296&bih=648&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiY7JD98qTSAhVDtpQKHQPbAWIQ_AUIBygC#tbm=isch&q=+Lasagna+Gardening   ****   This is the World Organic News for the week ending 27th of February 2017. Jon Moore reporting!   This week we focus upon five gardening ideas! These come from the blog post: Five Notable Organic Gardening Methods by  Garden Variety.   Four of these techniques are no-dig and one involves intensive digging. I assume by now you know my preference is for no-dig but I realise there are people out there happy to bend their backs and turn the soil.   We’ll begin with the digging system: French Intensive Gardening.  The post gives a good description of the process.   Quote: The French Intensive Gardening method was re-established in a two acre garden plot just outside of Paris in the late 1800’s. The purpose was to grow an abundance of vegetables year round in a several mid-sized growing beds for the home and markets. Generally, a wide bed (5ft in width) is dug approximately 12 inches in depth. The soil from this bed is placed to the side.  At the bottom of the trench, the soil is turned another 12 inches and then loosened with a sturdy garden fork and 1/3 yard of compost added. An additional bed is dug utilizing this same technique. After this is done, put the reserved soil from the first bed is placed back into the trench and mixed with 1/2 yard of compost (or manure). End Quote.   This double digging and moving soil about can be done within the confines of a single bed. A spade’s width of soil is removed at one end. The soil under it is dug and loosened. The next spade width of soil is turned onto the first and the second dug and loosened and so on until the end of the bed is reached and the first soil removed is added to the last spade width of the garden bed. Manures and compost being added throughout the process. As you can see this system requires a large amount of effort and it comes from a time when labour costs, let alone personal time costs, were much lower. The idea of double digging was to aerate the soil and to bury potential weed seeds. The bed was left bare to the elements until the plantings covered the surface area.   The system works and is productive. It provided food all year round and that’s a good starting point for any system. Sorry you listeners in Canada, the Northern parts of the USA and Scandinavia. I won’t even glance at our listeners in Russia.   The annual soil turning and the surface of the garden bed left exposed seems to point against this method. I’ve heard it argued that this a good first year technique, especially when the soil is compacted and/or a pan have formed below the surface. Masanobu Fukuoka, of The One Straw Revolution, faced just this problem in his orchard. He overcame this not by digging but by broadcasting daikon radish seeds and allowing this three foot monster radishes to loosen the soil for him. Your choice.   Now to the no-dig methods. We start with Keyhole Gardening. This system relies on a garden bed with a walkway cut into it. Usually circular in form The beds are uber raised to waist level. The post explains:   Quote: Keyhole Gardening was introduced in Africa by the Consortium for Southern Africa Food Security Emergency (C-SAFE) to help ailing and frail Africans grow their own produce with minimum effort by means of a specialized raised bed. The bed, which is waist high and in the shape of a keyhole, allows for standing and leaning for long periods and is built using stacked rocks, bricks, wood or pieces of concrete. A compost bin is placed in the center of the bed and as material breaks down, the resulting composted nutrients are added to the soil. End Quote.   There is much to recommend this system. The appealing circular nature of the beds is great for setting it’s size to the reach of the gardener. Circles aren’t overly efficient in space use but maybe you could interconnect hexagonal beds like a beehive? Anyway I’ve provided a link to the google images page for keyhole gardens in the show notes.   Now we come to Hügelkultur! Quote: Hügelkultur (a German word for hill mound) is a growing method that is believed to have originated from Eastern Europe thousands of years ago. Widely utilized by permaculture enthusiasts, it is based on the concept of natural occurring decomposition of plant material in forests; ergo fallen trees, branches and other plant material which over time has decayed and created a healthy biomass of rich hummus. The process of layered debris is continuous thus creating an organic, lush, green ecosystem teeming with beneficial life. End Quote.   I believe this system is also good for extending the growing season as the heat generated by the decomposing pile of organic material maintains a level of warmth into Autumn/Fall. I saw a man using these gardens in mountainous country when frosts can arrive at most times of the year. It takes some time and effort to set up a hugelkultur garden but the work tends to be maintenance over time rather than a re-start each year. I’m not sure how long these garden last but I’m assuming five years as a minimum. Again I’ve put a link to images of Hugelkultur gardens in the show notes.   Onto Deep Mulch Gardening.   Quote: The Deep Mulch Gardening method was made popular by gardening expert Ruth Stout in the 1960’s, offers a low maintenance-no work philosophy. Garden beds are covered in large amounts of hay, straw, leaves, pine needles, sawdust and vegetable waste periodically to create a barrier to deter weeds and enriching existing soil underneath as it gradually decomposes. When starting a new bed, it is recommended to mulch at least 8 inches thick over a planting area. End Quote.   This system can be used on top of the French Intensive beds if you’ve given up on digging. The idea is to mimic Nature, always a good starting point, by laying an 8 to 12 inch (20 to 30cm) layer on the garden bed as per the floor of a forest. Idea is to save the soil from temperature extremes and drying out alternating with flooding. The mulch acts as a sort of leveling tool for water flow. Mulch also attracts biota to both live within it and to assist in its decomposition. I’ve used urine soaked goat bedding as a mulch over yellow very sandy soil. Within one growing season the soil was black, rich in humus and at least 18 inches, (50cm) deep. I can, therefore, confirm this system works.   A variation on this system is the Lasagna Garden.   Quote: The Lasagna Gardening movement was conceived by Patricia Lanza and is a method of layering compostable material on top of a planting area to form a large mound which, over time, will decompose into viable and loamy soil and compost. The material normally used for layering is wet newspapers, peat moss, sand, compost, grass clippings, shredded leaves and wood ash. End Quote   This is a more formal version of the deep mulch system. First year production can be less than expected but not necessarily so. Either way, production increases each year as the material decomposes and feeds the soil. As with the other no-dig systems, Lasagna gardens need to be topped up each year with organic materials. This is a whole easier than double digging. If we let the soil systems do the work for us, we will find they do so 24 hours a day every day of the year. If we keep the soil covered, not with plastic but with organic matter, we will protect it, we will be nurturing it and it will support us in return.   A link to the google images page for Lasagna gardening is in the show notes.   And that brings us to the end of this week’s podcast.   If you’ve liked what you heard, could please follow the link in the show notes and vote for World Organic News in the Australian Podcast Awards Click here Thanks in advance.   Any suggestions, feedback or criticisms of the podcast or blog are most welcome. email me at podcast@worldorganicnews.com.   Thank you for listening and I'll be back in a week.   **** Links WORLD ORGANIC NEWS in the Australian Podcast Awards Click here   Five Notable Organic Gardening Methods | Garden Variety http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-ej0   Keyhole Garden Images https://www.google.com.au/search?q=keyhole+gardens&rlz=1C5CHFA_enAU695AU695&espv=2&biw=1296&bih=648&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjiyL_c8aTSAhXKjpQKHfEgCuQQ_AUIBigB   Hugelkultur Images https://www.google.com.au/search?q=keyhole+gardens&rlz=1C5CHFA_enAU695AU695&espv=2&biw=1296&bih=648&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjiyL_c8aTSAhXKjpQKHfEgCuQQ_AUIBigB#tbm=isch&q=hugelkultur&*   Lasagna Garden Images https://www.google.com.au/search?q=Deep+Mulch+Gardening&rlz=1C5CHFA_enAU695AU695&espv=2&biw=1296&bih=648&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiY7JD98qTSAhVDtpQKHQPbAWIQ_AUIBygC#tbm=isch&q=+Lasagna+Gardening  

2016 12 31   This the World Organic News yearly roundup episode. And what a year its been! I’ve identified four broad themes to 2016. Let’s get into them   Firstly, Cities. Perhaps the most unlikely place to find farming but here it is. Rooftop, vertical, empty lot and balcony/terrace farming/gardening as well as the suburban homesteader all featured this year in the blog and on the podcast.   Small areas, intensively planted and thoughtfully custodianed can produce huge amounts of food. That people are doing this is a sign of our longing for real food. That people are doing it in cities is a sign the long, fossil fueled based, supply lines may not be as safe as we are led to believe. It is also a sign people are looking for flavour. An heirloom variety of tomatoes that grows well in container on a balcony will never be capable of bulk transportation across 1000s of kilometres. It will however have flavour to balance its inability to travel.   On a more industrial scale, the Japanese plan to open a fully automated vertical farm harvesting, initially, 1000s of lettuce a day before diversifying into other leafy vegetables. As I’ve stated elsewhere, peopleless farming doesn’t sit right with me but it is an option during famines, disaster relief and so on when the need to feed people is greater than the need for human interactions with food. I just realised that argument can be extended to feeding people at anytime yet peopleless farming still doesn’t sit right with me.   The urban/suburban homesteading movement continues apace as more individuals and families see the benefits of growing their own. The homesteading side of this movement usually involves some sort of animals to add to the mix. This allows manure collection and increased soil health and productivity. I’ve seen people growing rabbits on this scale but the usual and animal is the chicken! The good thing about chooks is they will give you manure and an egg a day whether you have a rooster or not. With a rooster comes the joys of breeding but in some council areas roosters also bring noise complaints. And remember kids, chickens are the gateway stock to larger animals! It is a very small step from hens to backyard goat!   The second theme for 2016 is biotech! This year has seen Washington State sue Monsanto for residues in the environment and the Australian High Court reject an appeal from Steve Marsh against a contamination of his land by a neighbour’s GMO canola pollen. Mixed messages! Burkina Faso has dumped BT Cotton and returned to standard types. Still chemically grown but a step in the right direction. To add to this small step against Monsanto, the World Health Organization declared Monsanto’s flagship pesticide Roundup a probable carcinogen. Probable is one step down from carcinogenic. The reason why Roundup only received a probable rating is a lack of evidence. The WHO will continue to collect data and review its rating of Roundup as it does for all the declared probable carcinogens.   Perhaps more troubling is merger between Bayer and Monsanto. Two enormous biotech, chemical and seed producers merging into a huge corporation. Could they use this market power for good or does that word not enter into the economic considerations? The point of corporations is simply profit. Sad but true. Individuals in positions of power within corporations may consider things other than profit but people come and people go. The corporation or one very much like it will continue to live for nothing but profit. So it augers not well for the biosphere from this merger. We will have more to say on this in 2017, I’m sure.   As many of us have noted and the BBC statistical radio show “More or Less” proved, 2016 was a year of high profile deaths. The one which impacted the organic movement most strongly was, off course, the passing of Bill Mollison. Bill’s passing marked the loss of the last of the triumvirate who influenced my path into and through the organic movement. The other two being John Seymour and Masanobu Fukuoka. So a particularly deep loss not just me but for many. What can I say that has not already been said? This world is a lesser place without Bill. Yet his work lives on. I have yet to find a country, even war torn one, without permaculture. The genius of Mollison’s and Holmgren’s work is the universality of the method. Across climate zones from Desert to Jungle Permaculture both has a place and is being implemented as I speak. Truly a legacy we will only truly understand with passing of time.   Despite or, if you are of that persuasion, because of, the political changes in 2016,  World Organic News still believes there is room for hope in this world. We have the tools to feed the world. Feed the world healthy food which not only does not damage the biosphere but actually heals it. We have a rising number of young farmers across the developed world for the first time in generations and they are overwhelming organic practitioners. Do we see the start of a truly grassroots movement? World Organic News hopes so.   On another positive note, the positive outcomes from Paris COP20 in 2015 to Morocco COP21 there is a path forward on climate change. Even if we weren’t facing the challenges of climate change, a move to fossil fuel free economies would still make sense. The pollution from the fossil fuel industry will take centuries to remediate and that time is continuously being pushed back as we cling to this dirty fuel.   Perovskite solar cells continue to set new efficiency records, silicon solar cells are now the cheapest form of energy production. Despite the politically based claims against climate change one thing and one thing alone will drive both believers and skeptics and that is price. As economies of scale continue to kick in this price difference will only increase. Once this gains momentum the subsidies paid to fossil fuel producers will come under increasingly strong pressure. The question before us is one of timing. Can we make the transition in time?   There is also something we can all do. The organisation Kiss the Ground (https://www.kisstheground.com/) has a great series of videos explaining how, since about World War Two, carbon has been liberated from the soil and dispersed to the atmosphere. More importantly the videos explain how to move the carbon back to the soil.   And this is what organic methods can and will do! Surely this is hope enough to take us into 2017 with heads held high, ready to face the effects of our species’ actions and to do something about it!   I’ll be back on the 9th of January 2017 with a return to the weekly roundup of news, ideas and methods from the Organic World!   I am contractually required to mention that I have new microphone and hopefully the sound quality has improved. Let me know if you think it has improved.   If you’ve liked what you heard, please tell everyone you know any way you can! I’d also really appreciate a review on iTunes. This helps others to find us. Thanks in advance!   Any suggestions, feedback or criticisms of the podcast or blog are most welcome. email me at podcast@worldorganicnews.com.   Thank you for listening and I'll be back in a week.

Body and Soul Awareness is a weekly, 90 min radio show focusing on awakening your own internal guides when it comes to overall well-being including physical health, internal state of being and spiritual expansion. Your hosts, Stephanie and Oxana are friends and business owners who collectively provide services in nutrition, skincare and body energy management with concentration on physical, energy and spiritual bodies. Today we will be discussing how to prepare our body and mind for coming up Holidays in the most Holistic Way possible. Discussion will include topics such as flu shots, managing stress and weather changes, addressing weak points of DNA, chronic physical issues and much more.  'Food and medicine are not two different things: they are the front and back of one body. Chemically grown vegetables may be eaten for food, but they cannot be used as medicine.' - Masanobu Fukuoka, The one-Straw Revolution

Links   Why do we work? – Hawthorn Rising http://www.worldorganicnews.com/50921/why-do-we-work-hawthorn-rising/ Organic egg industry pits factory farms against family farms | Agweek http://www.worldorganicnews.com/50885/organic-egg-industry-pits-factory-farms-against-family-farms-agweek/ A Paradigm Project for the future – Location: Morocco : Augusta Free Press http://www.worldorganicnews.com/50878/a-paradigm-project-for-the-future-location-morocco-augusta-free-press/ **** This is the World Organic News Podcast for the week ending 7th of November 2016. Jon Moore reporting! The blog Hawthorn Rising brings a post: Why do we work? It begins with a quote from Masanobu Fukuoka author of The One Straw Revolution. Quote: “I do not particularly like the word ‘work’. Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and I think that is the most ridiculous thing in the world. Other animals make their livings by living, but people work like crazy, thinking that they have to in order to stay alive.” End Quote. The post goes on to suggest we currently need to work to cover bills, debts etc. and then end with the sentence: Quote: It wasn’t always this way, and needn’t be in the future either, however we would have to change our expectations drastically! End quote. This needs some unpacking. Let’s begin. We work because we live in a system which has created a value for work. The protestant work ethic springs to mind. From this follows, amongst other things,  the need for efficiency, rational use of resources, the abhorrence of idleness and so on. Fukuoka refers to the days of his childhood when the local farmers grew sufficient food for themselves and had a surplus by farming between Spring and Autumn, that would be Fall for the North Americans out there. During winter they and their soils rested. The farmers hunted rabbits, repaired tools, met and recuperated. This meant they had time for reflection, for poetry, for being fully human. Whilst Fukuoka spoke against the idea of work, he was not opposed to labour. He happily put the hours in when they were needed. He was just opposed to the battery hen world of factories and offices. If we take a further step back we can see the concept of work, of the protestant work ethic and economics in general are based upon the principle of shortage. My economics textbook began with the statement: “Economics is process where unlimited wants negotiate finite resources.” For most of human existence this has been the case. Fisher-gatherer-hunters solved this riddle by matching the carrying capacity of their domain to their population. As the species travelled out of Africa across five of the other six continents this wasn’t so great a problem. There was always more land, more resources and so on. Then in the years between the various points of domestication, The Fertile Crescent, Mesoamerica, East Asia and sub saharan Africa, the shortage of available resources was negotiated through power structures and work. Those in elite positions needed not to work and the great masses had to work or they starved. There were times when starvation came despite any amount of work but the general principle holds true. Since the beginning of the industrial revolution this notion was solidified into reality. The need to work to justify an existence, to define masculinity, to not be a welcher on society became ingrained. This was reinforced through religion with statements like: “Idle hands do the devil’s work” and so on. This is the system which forced the notion of efficiency and productivity on the farmers of Masanobu Fukuoka’s part of Japan. They changed from farming for three seasons and contemplating for one to continuous production based upon oil derived fertilisers, pesticides and herbicides. The system of Natural Farming developed by Fukuoka returns to a condition of continuously available food, minimal labour and community creation. On a technological level we are approaching a point where not just the drudgery of work but the highly paid work of solicitors, accountants and so on are about to be “roboticized”. That is the routine, the repeatable parts of all jobs are about to be replaced by machines who do not take holidays, become ill, strike or even demand wages. Budweiser ran a proof of concept delivery across Colorado last month with a self driving truck. Think of how many people are employed in transport, think of the routine jobs in the admin in the transport sector which will also be replaced with artificial intelligence as the truck, cab and hire car drivers are removed from the roads by self driven vehicles. We are moving from a world where scarcity defined our context. From this followed the “dignity” of work, the despising of the lazy and a questioning of the value of the creative. Once 90% of us don’t have a job, how do we eat? How do we define ourselves? We are entering a new era. Fukuoka has shown us one way we can feed ourselves, be fully alive and labour with purpose and creativity. We are all heading into a world where the meaning of “work” is changing. We can and must ask ourselves how this world will function and what will be our purpose in this new environment. We can all make preparation for the transition period coming. The transition from post industrial revolution to the Web 3.0 Revolution. Change is upon us. The blog Agweek describes the struggle between organic egg production and factory farms. It’s particular focus is upon the factory like animal welfare status so many “organic”, in inverted commas, farms. A cage free organic egg farm still has low square footage per bird and access to sunlight and fresh air is designed for the birds to avoid. These conditions are not acceptable in an organic farm yet animal welfare, at least in the US, is not part of the organic certification process from what I can work out. This holds true for dairy farms as well. In these so called organic units cows are stall tied and conveyor fed as per industrial farms. The difference is the feed is from certified organic suppliers. This sort of misses the point. It is not dissimilar to providing an open plan office for humans as opposed to cubicles. The humans are still tied to their desks even if the cage is now gilded. But change, as I say is upon us. The blog Augusta Free Press posted a piece entitled: A Paradigm Project for the future – Location: Morocco. The post discusses the correct use of resources in a development project to achieve sustainability and longevity. It discusses a particular development project in Morocco. The point I draw from this is we have time to change our food production systems. The social changes coming will be seismic but we will still have to eat. We can prepare for the change. The late Bill Mollison in a quote from my tribute episode summed up what we can and must do: Quote: “The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter.” ― Bill Mollison End Quote Maybe this time, as a species, we can transition through change peacefully. It is indeed my hope. And that brings us to the end of this week’s podcast. If you’ve liked what you heard, please tell everyone you know any way you can! I’d also really appreciate a review on iTunes. This helps others to find us. Thanks in advance! Any suggestions, feedback or criticisms of the podcast or blog are most welcome. email me at podcast@worldorganicnews.com. Thank you for listening and I'll be back in a week.    

LINKS   UN Report Says Small-Scale Organic Farming Only Way To Feed The World | The Unveiling of The Hidden Knowledge http://www.worldorganicnews.com/50748/un-report-says-small-scale-organic-farming-only-way-to-feed-the-world-the-unveiling-of-the-hidden-knowledge/   Maslow's hierarchy of needs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs   Making headway towards urban food security – Food Governance http://www.worldorganicnews.com/50592/making-headway-towards-urban-food-security-food-governance/   A Farm Is Born – My Urban Farm http://www.worldorganicnews.com/50464/a-farm-is-born-my-urban-farm/   What Makes a Good Urban Farm Site? – TheBreakAway http://www.worldorganicnews.com/50686/what-makes-a-good-urban-farm-site-thebreakaway/   To till or not to till? Creating fertile soil | DIY Dynamics http://www.worldorganicnews.com/50570/to-till-or-not-to-till-creating-fertile-soil-diy-dynamics/   The One Straw Revolution. http://www.appropedia.org/images/d/d3/Onestraw.pdf **** This is the World Organic News Podcast for the week ending 31st of October 2016. Jon Moore reporting! We begin this week with a reminder! The blog The Unveiling of The Hidden Knowledge reminds us of a UN report on Small Scale Organic Farming. Quote: Drawing on an extensive review of the scientific literature published in the last five years, the Special Rapporteur identifies agroecology as a mode of agricultural development which not only shows strong conceptual connections with the right to food, but has proven results for fast progress in the concretization of this human right for many vulnerable groups in various countries and environments. End quote. The report highlights not just food security but the right to food. Surely one of the most basic of human rights?  It sits at the base of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs: food, shelter and clothing. It is worth pointing out the priority given to the methodology of agroecology. I and, indeed, others have placed Permaculture, Natural Farming and similar schools under this heading. Given that many people and soon to be the majority of us will be living in cities, how is this agroecology to be applied to urban areas? As I’ve discussed before, growing food where it is consumed has much to recommend it: fresher food, short supply lines, fossil fuel use reduction and so on. As the UN reports states, quote: ....in a context of ecological, food and energy crises, the most pressing issue regarding reinvestment (in food production)  is not how much, but how. End quote. The blog Food Governance’s post: Making headway towards urban food security discusses this very issue. The author makes the point that this must be a bottom up process. Locals know what they like to eat and they understand their local microclimates better than outside “experts” or they very quickly learn them throughout a growing season. The danger avoided with a bottom up approach is the Green Revolution, one size fits all approach. Individuals with fruit tree skills meet with gardeners and they all meet with backyard chicken keepers and so on. Depending upon the locale small ruminants can also be worked into local food systems to provide dairy products and manures for the gardens. What is needed is seed funding, leadership and connections between people. Of these three things, the latter two, leadership and connections between people tend to be lost with increasing urbanisation, at least in the initial stages. Yet progress is possible! The blog:  My Urban Farm posted this week: A Farm Is Born. The author takes us through their process from reluctant starter to back breaking mattock work to sheet mulching to productivity on their test plot. Well worth a read as it shows the succession of thoughts and actions in response to heavy clay and restricted water supply. This is one way of doing things. The growers made do and adapted to what was before them. The blog TheBreakAway posted a video entitled: What Makes a Good Urban Farm Site? This video describes what we could call the perfect setup. Great if you can get it. The previous post from My Urban Farm shows what happens more often than not. So we need to adapt, improvise and overcome. You know, the problem solving thing that makes us truly human. The blog DIY Dynamics has an interesting post entitled: To till or not to till? Creating fertile soil. This approach to no till is a little different from the one I use. I just pile organic matter on top of garden beds or a layer of cardboard and newspapers when starting a bed. The system used in the blog post is this: Quote: A new technique that the farm has adopted in the last year is the no till method of bed preparation. By using a hand tool, called a broad-fork  to manually aerate and lightly turn the soil. This helps to create an ideal habitat for micro-biotic organisms to thrive. The less you till the soil the more that these flora and fauna can establish their residence. End Quote. Thinking this through I can see the logic of the process. I just wonder at the potential damage done to my oft mentioned fungal communities. Maybe the occasional damage to them will release nutrients, maybe they will grow back more strongly or maybe, even in a biodynamic setting, the urge to touch the soil with tools is still too ingrained in the collective consciousness of gardeners across the globe to avoid. It is this urge to fix the soil through manual labour which is the cause of so much frustration and time consumption in gardening circles. It is the biggest step we have to overcome before the food, flower and feed potential of soils everywhere are fully realised. The moment we realise Nature has been growing food long before we were trapped into domestication is the moment we are truly free. Nature will grow more than enough food for all of us, Nature will do it in a way that provides healthy, nourishing food and Nature will happily do it without the need for returns to shareholders, without the need to rely upon oil based fertilisers, pesticides and herbicides. We just need to shut our chattering mind off for long enough for her to be heard. And we can all do this. It is a simple process, not necessarily easy but simple. I’ve included a link to a pdf version of The One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka as a great starting point. This is the story of how one person learned to listen, observe and biomimic. Highly recommended! And that brings us to the end of this week’s podcast. If you’ve liked what you heard, please tell everyone you know any way you can! I’d also really appreciate a review on iTunes. This helps others to find us. Thanks in advance! Any suggestions, feedback or criticisms of the podcast or blog are most welcome. email me at podcast@worldorganicnews.com. Thank you for listening and I'll be back in a week.  

What Happens When You Stop Using Crop Protection Food Insight Your Nutrition and Food Safety Resource   http://www.worldorganicnews.com/?p=48176   Small Farms Are Feeding The World | Colin Todhunter http://www.worldorganicnews.com/?p=48148   Food Insight http://www.foodinsight.org/about   Permaculture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture Bill Mollison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Mollison David Holmgren https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Holmgren   Natural Farming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_farming Masanobu Fukuoka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanobu_Fukuoka

This week’s episode sponsored by JEMbiscuits! www.jembiscuits.com Contact Jon at: podcast@worldorganicnews.com This week we look at the slug problem in some depth, a quick look at strawberry prop and are introduced to Masanobu Fukuoka and The One Straw Revolution! Slug Stories: Slug Traps | autoimmuneodyssey http://www.worldorganicnews.com/?p=44238 Slug control | An Edible Life http://www.worldorganicnews.com/?p=44146 Slugs and snails.. (or the sacrificial aubergine) | Ramshackle Avenue http://www.worldorganicnews.com/?p=44088 Secrets Of An Allotment Slug – craftandothercrazyplans http://www.worldorganicnews.com/?p=44388 Strawberry Prop: Strawberry Propagation Update. | freedomfarmtv http://www.worldorganicnews.com/?p=44149

In this episode I have the great pleasure if connecting with Larry Korn from Oregon, USA. In addition to being a student of the late Masanobu Fukuoka (1913-2008) he’s and educator, consultant, editor and author in the fields of permaculture, natural farming, sustainable landscaping and local food production. […] The post Episode 122: Natural farming and the life and work of Masanobu Fukuoka appeared first on Levevei™.

On the podcast this week we interview Larry Korn, author of One-Straw Revolutionary and translator and editor of Masanobu Fukuoka’s The One-Straw Revolution and Sowing Seeds in the Desert. We talk about Larry’s experience living on Fukuoka’s farm and we delve deep into Fukuoka’s natural farming philosophy. During the discussion we cover how natural farming […]

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Like this podcast? Support it on Patreon. Today's episode is a permabyte review of the forthcoming book by Toby Hemenway, The Permaculture City. Exciting, isn't it? Toby Hemenway has a new book coming out and I'll just go ahead and say it: it is incredible. I received an advance copy, clocking in at 288 pages, from the publisher Chelsea Green and, even though I'm a slow reader, sat down and read the whole thing, cover to cover, in a day. What I like about this book is that the way it is written and organized reminds me of my own permaculture path. In the beginning there is an examination of the ethics and principles and why they matter. Then there is an look at design and considering techniques, but then stepping back and to organize our thoughts with the tools provided by the permaculture design process. To re-examine the elements and how they relate to systems. As that understanding grows to take another step and use small examples, such as water systems, to expand our thoughts further and realize there is more to this work than just the land and includes the people involved with caring for it, for maintaining it, and that those living communities matter. They embody why we care for Earth, care for people, and share the surplus. As importantly Toby also addresses the real fact that we can't expect everyone to become hunter-gatherers again or subsistence farmers. Even if we could that idea isn't reflective of the resiliency that permaculture design engenders. Using resiliency as a basis he uses several examples, including home and community gardening, water, and energy use, as informal case studies to explore how to apply the principles to step back and ask bigger questions so we can create useful strategies. This last point is important because, to me, The Permaculture City is a book about better understanding our design strategies, those often nebulous ideas that separate the philosophical underpinnings of permaculture, the ethics and principles, from the techniques that represent the physical practice that all of our on-paper design results in. There is time for techniques when we implement, but that can only come after consideration and design. For those of you familiar with the Zone and Sector design models in permaculture, they are both upon throughout the provided examples. I was left with a new understanding of how to apply these, especially to social systems. Chapter Nine in particular, on Placemaking and The Empowered Community, took me in a whole new direction. Though I've used these methods repeatedly in the past after seeing them applied in the context of the various examples I come to agree with what Larry Santoyo says, which is quoted in this book, “Sectors trump everything.” I'm now going back and examining some of my designs, including landscape, social, and economic, to see where my sector analysis may be weak. My thoughts on permaculture moving beyond the the landscape started several years ago when I interviewed Dave Jacke, Larry Santoyo, and Mark Lakeman in short succession. Reading this book has helped to continue my shift in thinking about permaculture, and in about the time it would take you to go back and listen to those interviews you can sit down and be well into this wonderful book and have an even greater understanding of how permaculture applies to so many human systems, but also how to start asking the questions that can take your understanding of design to the next level. I've been in this field for half a decade now and this book is a welcome addition to my library. It came at the right time, but I can't help but wish that I would have been ready for it and received it sooner. Overall I like Toby's latest book so much that I'm putting it on my recommended reading list, especially for someone new to permaculture. After you've read Masanobu Fukuoka's The One-Straw Revolution, Donella Meadows' Thinking in Systems, Rosemary Morrow's Earth User's Guide to Permaculture, and David Holmgren's Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability, read The Permaculture City and take your design well beyond the landscape. The Permaculture City goes into publication on July 15, 2015 and you can pre-order a copy through the Chelsea Green website for $24.95. https://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/the_permaculture_city I am expecting to receive a final print copy of the book when it goes to press and will include that in the Traveling Permaculture Library Project. If you'd like to be a part of that cycle of giving, and receive a random book related to the broad umbrella of permaculture, email your name and address to librarian@thepermaculturepodcast.com and Matt Winters will take care of you. Until the next time, take care of Earth, your self, and each other. Correction: When originally recorded and posted the publication date for this book was September 14, 2015. The release date has since been moved up to July 15, 2015.

2.12.2014 "Wenn ihr den Buddha trefft, tötet den Buddha ..." Rinzai Roku Vorträge, Abschnitt 18 Christoph Rei Ho Hatlapa spricht in diesem Vortrag über den Gründer seiner Schule, Meister Rinzai. Linchi, wie sein chinesischer Name lautete, lebte in unruhigen Zeiten. Das Reich der Tang versank seinerzeit im Chaos einer Rebellion, die das ganze Reich auf den Kopf stellte. Und trotzdem empfiehlt Linchi (jap.: Rinzai) seinen Schülern, auf alle mentalen Konstrukte und vorgeblichen Gewissheiten zu verzichten und die radikale geistige Freiheit und Unabhängigkeit zu wählen. Es geht ihm darum, dass wir unsere Verstrickungen und Konzepte loslassen und wirklich in die innere Freiheit kommen, die uns immer offen steht. Es geht ihm darum, im Hier&Jetzt in die volle Präsenz zu kommen. In unserer Zeit leiden besonders die Schüler und Studenten unter Zwängen wie z.B.dem, in begrenzter Zeit bestimmte Credit Points zu sammeln und unter einem unbarmherzigen Zwang zur Anpassung, der es ihnen absurderweise beinahe unmöglich macht, diejenigen Qualitäten, die in den Betrieben gesucht werden, wie etwa Kreativität und lebendige Innovationskraft, zu entwickeln. Als Gegenbeispiel für solche Entwicklungen führt Christpoh Rei Ho Hatlapa den Japaner Masanobu Fukuoka an, der eine eigene Form der nachhaltigen und naturverträglichen Landwirtschaft entwickelte, die ihm auch noch Zeit für Muße, für Dichtung und Lehre ließ. Der Zen-Meister Linchi wie auch Masanobu Fukuoka erinnern uns daran, dass die Grundlage dafür, dasjenige zu finden, was wirklich wichtig ist: den "Wahren Menschen ohne Rang und Namen" in uns zum Ausdruck zu bringen, darin besteht, uns für die Kräfte der Natur und für das lebendige Leben zu öffnen.

Chad Hellwinckel, Research Assistant Professor in the University of Tennessee's Agricultural Analysis Center, discusses The one-straw revolution: an introduction to natural farming by Masanobu Fukuoka. Trained as a scientist, Fukuoka rejected both modern agribusiness and centuries of agricultural practice, deciding instead that the best forms of cultivation mirror nature’s own laws. Over the next three decades he perfected his “do-nothing” technique: commonsense, sustainable practices that all but eliminate the use of pesticides, fertilizer, tillage, and wasteful effort. (Recorded September 18, 2013)