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Masanobu Fukuoka (1913–2008)

Autor von The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming

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Fukuoka, Masanobu
Geburtstag
1913-02-02
Todestag
2008-08-16
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Nationalität
Japan
Geburtsort
Iyo, Shikoku, Japan
Wohnorte
Iyo, Shikoku, Japan

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Have you ever read a book and felt that you had found a kindred spirit. This author did it for me. Back in the 1980's, Masanobu Fukuoka was watching his fellow Japanese and the U.S. way of farming remove itself from God, from the essence of nature. He had a lifelong dream of creating and/or restoring nature in desertous places. He practiced what he preached and lived his life in line with his beliefs. He is Christian. He did believe in a lot of the same philosophies as the Buddhist. But, as a Christian, he sure didn't believe God only lived in a church building, and neither do I, for that matter.

He was also a certified agricultural scientist who found science research inconsistent and lacking in truly discovering nature and how it works. Most everything he brought to light in this book is speculative, but he reinforces his thoughts with things he has observed throughout his travels. His life has been centered around living very close to nature, and letting nature guide his work instead of him trying to alter nature to work for him....because, in the end, it can't be done. You destroy nature, you destroy mankind because God is the essence of nature and man! They are one! It’s like turning your back on God when you destroy nature.

Think about this! In the beginning was God. God breathed life into nature (trees, flowers, earth, space, etc...), and God breathed life into man. We are all "a part of God". This must be the reason why I feel so close to God when I’m getting my hands dirty in the garden. In the years that I don’t do any gardening, I feel very disconnected, not only from God, but from life itself!

The author believed man has created the problems we see today in nature by clear cutting, the large amount of meats we consume, the thousands of single-crop acreages now grown to feed animals and run cars (instead of growing a variety of nutrient dense foods to feed the people), to applying chemical fertilizers and pesticides, even rototilling and compacting the soil with heavy farm equipment are all root causes of our erosion and decline in today's agriculture. He believed agricultural practices were actually going backwards. We may be creating more food, but at the expense of nutrition and soil health. Scientists are continuously trying to create the next best chemical fertilizers, pesticides and machinery to harvest those thousands of acres of genetically modified (GMO) crops full of pesticides to stay atop of the ever growing agricultural problems that we have created. The bottom line is our farming soils that the world depends on is completely depleted. Natural farming will be key to bring back the health of our soil, and ultimately the health of nature itself. This book just barely touches on the process of natural farming. I'm hoping to read more about the process in his other book, "The Natural Way of Farming".

I can't believe it, but he actually expressed in written words what I have always questioned about who determined, for example, that the way of Indian worship was wrong and un-Christian. It is very possible that everyone, the Indians, the Jews, the Muslims (not the radicals) Japanese, Buddhist, Monks, and the Christians are actually worshipping the same God, but just in their own "language" per say...in their own culture and manner. We all have our statues resembling what we believe to be our cultural image of God (or Jesus). Japanese have their Buddhas, Indians have their totem poles, Muslims have their rugs, candles and cows as a sacred image, and Americans and English have Jesus and Mary statues. We all look up into the same sky worshipping God. But they may call God something different and describe him differently. Yet, we may all be expressing ourselves to the same entity. Who deemed MY way of worship as the ONLY way to worship God? Man? Well, man is very limited in his visions and many man-made religions also like to put God in a box.
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MissysBookshelf | Aug 27, 2023 |
Originally published in December 1975.
This was a very hard book to get through, and not as easy to read as "The Road Back to Nature", but it was one I had to finish because his beliefs are so similar to mine. He put into words, in a way that I never have been able to, exactly why I have always felt closer to God while out there digging in the dirt. Nature is a part of God! When originally designed, it was perfect. On page 214, author writes:

"A human environment cannot exist apart from nature, and so agriculture must be made the foundation for living…The earth is not merely soil, and the blue sky is more than just empty space. The earth is the garden of God, and the sky is where he sits. The farmer who, chewing well the grain harvested from the Lord's garden, raises his face to the heavens in gratitude, lives the best and most perfect life possible."

Fukuoka's vision is for all people to return to the garden of God to farm. It would be a way of life in which one constantly reaffirms the source of life ('life' being another name for God). This is so important because humans really have forgotten where life comes from. Young people today believe food comes from the grocery store without another thought about it.

He does explain the “natural” way to farm, but, also the fallacies of science technology: growing expenses for larger farming equipment placed on farmers and the damages it really places on their land, synthetic fertilizers, chemical herbicides and pesticides, GMO crops, etc... We are removing ourselves further from nature by destroying our lands, and removing ourselves from God! But there is hope! It is proven that land can be rehabilitated, but man has to be willing to return to the natural way of farming again.

Most of the lessons on the natural way to farm is on growing rice and barley in Japan, but one can still use the same principals to farm, or garden, or to naturally raise farm animals here in the U.S. I’m left very encouraged and motivated to get started in trying out a few ideas from this book.

Available to read FREE at Internet Archive (can download to Kindle):

https://archive.org/details/TheNaturalWayOfFarming-MasanobuFukuoka
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MissysBookshelf | 2 weitere Rezensionen | Aug 27, 2023 |
Cerca de una pequeña aldea de la isla de Shikoku en el sur de Japón. Masanobu Fukuoka ha estado desarrollando un método de agricultura natural que podría llegar a invertir la inercia degenerativa de la agricultura moderna. La agricultura natural no necesita maquinaria ni productos químicos y muy poco desherbaje. El Sr. Fukuoka no labra el suelo ni utiliza compost. No retiene el agua en sus campos de arroz a lo largo de la estación de crecimiento talcomo lo han hecho durante siglos los cultivadores de arroz en Oriente a lo largo del mundo. El suelo de sus campos no ha sido labrado desde hace veinticinco años, y sin embargo sus rendimientos se equiparan a los de las explotaciones japonesas más productivas. Su método de agricultura requiere menos labor que cualquier otro. No causa contaminación no necesita combustibles fósiles. Cuando empecé a oír hablar del Sr. Fukuoka era escéptico. ¿Cómo podía ser posible obtener altos rendimientos cada año con cultivo de arroz y cereales de invierno simplemente esparciendo la semilla sobre la superficie de un campo sin labrar? Tenía que haber algo más.… (mehr)
 
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Natt90 | 20 weitere Rezensionen | Sep 27, 2022 |
An older title, but one that so many food writers have referenced that I felt it was time to find a copy. The now-deceased author was a longtime advocate of what he called "do-nothing agriculture," which is not literally accurate but that indicates his lifelong success in farming diverges significantly from most. The book takes the reader through his techniques, including allowing a mix of crops with clover, fruit trees, etc. in the same field; no use of pesticides and minimal fertilizer; and planting new grains immediately after the prior harvest so some fields remain productive throughout the year (possible in the mild climate of his native Ehime Prefecture). It is also relatively conversational, so you learn some about Fukuoka's life and the many visitors his farm enjoyed.… (mehr)
 
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