Uncovering the Secrets of Natural Farming: A Guide to the One-Straw Revolution

r fisher: This book is insightful and explains the souls true purpose of working with nature in tandem. Amazing book, highly recommend for all!!

United States on Sep 16, 2023

Amazon Customer: I have learned so much from this book about gardening without chemicals. It breaks down everything from what chemicals do to the food, animals, and soil. And how food taste better growing the natural lost way. It's a good book to own and read if your into farming or agriculture.

United States on Sep 13, 2023

Rizwan Khan: excellent book

India on Sep 07, 2023

Paul Baker: I have been meaning to read this book for sometime but had preconceived ideas that it would be hard work to read. Not in the slightest and it has been a real page turner. Every page is full of wisdom and insight that is as relevant today as when it was written. Highly recommended.

United Kingdom on Dec 30, 2022

Pail Monilaws: Best read in a good few years. Beautiful and awe inspiring, to say the least

Canada on Nov 14, 2022

Simon Barber: Fascinating tale of how the Japanese farming system changed over the years, and why. And why much of the change was Not a good idea.....

United Kingdom on Oct 12, 2022

LEILA MANOEL DE MENEZES: O autor mostra a sensibilidade perdida pelo agricultor "moderno". Entender a Natureza é estar atento aos seus processos e a interdependência de todos os elementos envolvidos. Leitura imprescindível aos que buscam produzir respeitando a Terra.

Brazil on Oct 02, 2022

Just a guy and his family: Since I don't want to get cancer from my own garden, I have been researching ways to make the vegetables grow without poisoning them/us. Excellent book here. I started experimenting with cover crops, then grew things amidst the native plants that were already in the field. When I have success with a certain crop, say red beans, I know they work well with my cover crop (red clover for the honey bees). I no longer have to water the garden -- watering it just attracts things that prey on my vegetables, so it never made any sense, but the stuff can't get dry... Then I planted native edibles like plantain, chicory, and dandelions. They bring in pollinators, too. We had a great crop of beans, bitter melon, mints, lavender, and sweet potatoes, along with tons of dandelion salad. And, almost NO WEEDS. The soil looks healthier, too. I'll put the leaves from the parking area on the garden later.
A spring tip: Plant garlic and bitter greens of some type (healthy) first. The animals will sample it and become disgusted. Start bitter melon indoors, add that next. The deer hate it -- they nibbled the tips, only one time, hehe. Fry the bitter melon with pork/meat/ghee.
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United States on Aug 29, 2021

JG: This is an awesome book for numerous reasons, waayyy too many to count. The original author is perhaps a genius who was way ahead of his time. It is very interesting to learn that you can 'farm" without a ton of Chemical fertilizers, sustain a family of 5 on about 1.25 acre plot, do not need a rice Paddy for growing rice and can grow it in a "dry field", typically "green manure" and some animal &/or human manure (yes, human) are enough to replenish the nutrients in a field or growing plot (if I understood that part correctly), vegetables grown without chemical fertilizer in a "natural setting" taste much better and have more nutrients for your body, when sowing seeds you can do so "randomly" instead of in rows and can/will get better results, daikon radish and other vegetables can/will resow themselves year after year if done so properly (how?? read this book), it is actually cheaper to grow organic vegetables, however, consumers typically think a lower price means lower quality and vice versa, I could go on and on but I'm f
Done writing this. If you enjoy farming or growing vegetables then this book will not disappoint you, especially if you would prefer to grow them more...

United States on Aug 25, 2021

Jiang Xueqin: Masanobu Fukuoka was a government research scientist when he decided to become a farmer, and as a farmer what he practiced completely contravened the modern industrial agricultural complex that was slowly taking over Japan and the rest of the world. And as a farmer he planted a farming ideology and philosophy that can be best described as zen farming.

Yes, weeds grow, plants die, and nature takes, but so modern farming uses fertilizers, pesticides, and crop rotation to counter-act the effects of nature. But the problem is not nature, Masanobu argues, but rather man's obsession with defying and controlling nature. Like a true Buddhist, Masanobu argues that the source of man's unhappiness is his greed -- his craven desire to take more than he needs, which causes pollution, soil degradation, and disease. What man needs to do is to fundamentally question economic growth as ideal, and learn to trust and to work with nature once again -- plant what you need, let nature grow the food for you, and do nothing more.

Responding to the criticism "If you did nothing at all the world could not keep running. What would the world be without development?" Masanobu responds, "Why do...

United States on Jun 07, 2013