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The Philosophy and Work of Masanobu Fukuoka
Larry Korn
Paperback
$ 24.95
One - Straw Revolutionaryrepresents the first comment on the study of the late Japanese farmer and philosopher Masanobu Fukuoka ( 1913 – 2008 ) , widely considered to be natural farming ’s most influential practician .
Mr. Fukuoka is perhaps most known for his bestselling bookThe One - Straw Revolution(1978 ) , a manifesto on the importance of no - trough agriculture , which was at the meter of publication a extremist challenge to the spherical organization that supply the man ’s food , and still inspire proofreader today . Larry Korn , who apprenticed with Mr. Fukuoka in Japan at the time , translated the holograph and brought it to the United States , knowing it would change the conversation about solid food forever . The
One - Straw Revolution , edited by Korn and Wendell Berry , was an immediate international achiever , and constitute Mr. Fukuoka as a leading interpreter in the conflict against conventional industrial agriculture . In this novel book , through his own personal narrative , Larry Korn distills his experience of more than thirty - five years of subject with Mr. Fukuoka , living and working on his farm on Shikoku Island , and trip with Mr. Fukuoka to the United States on two six - calendar week visits . One - Straw Revolutionaryis the first record to look deep at natural land and intimately discuss the philosophy and work of Mr. Fukuoka . In addition to giving his personal idea about natural agriculture , Korn broadens the word by point out natural farming ’s kinship with the ways of indigenous cultures and traditional Japanese land . At the same meter , he clearly distinguishes natural land from other chassis of agriculture , including scientific and constitutional agribusiness and permaculture . Korn also clarify unremarkably held misconception about natural farming in direction westerly readers can readily understand . And he explain how lifelike farming can be used practically in area other than agriculture , including personal growth and development .
The book follows the generator on his travels from one back - to - the - land commune to another in the countryside of 1970s Japan , a journey that eventually led him to Mr. Fukuoka ’s natural farm . Korn ’s description of his clock time there , as well as travel with Mr. Fukuoka during his visit to the United States , extend a rarified , inside look at Mr. Fukuoka ’s life . reader will enjoy in this personal insight into one of the humankind ’s leading agricultural creative thinker .
“ A profound sharing of the substantive doctrine of natural farming translated through the friendship between Larry Korn and Masanobu Fukuoka . . . [ It ] offers judicious sixth sense into unquestionable practices that honor the community of all life . ”—Katrina Blair , author ofThe Wild Wisdom of Weeds
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