The Vision of Natural Farming
Author : Bharat Mansata
Publisher :
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 14,89 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Organic farming
ISBN : 9788185861418
Author : Bharat Mansata
Publisher :
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 14,89 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Organic farming
ISBN : 9788185861418
Author : Masanobu Fukuoka
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 32,20 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1603584188
Argues that the Earth's deteriorating condition is man-made and outlines a way for the process to be reversed by rehabilitating the deserts using natural farming.
Author : Masanobu Fukuoka
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,16 MB
Release : 2010-09-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1590173929
Call it “Zen and the Art of Farming” or a “Little Green Book,” Masanobu Fukuoka’s manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative system of cultivating the earth reflects a deep faith in the wholeness and balance of the natural world. As Wendell Berry writes in his preface, the book “is valuable to us because it is at once practical and philosophical. It is an inspiring, necessary book about agriculture because it is not just about agriculture.” 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 so-called “do-nothing” technique: commonsense, sustainable practices that all but eliminate the use of pesticides, fertilizer, tillage, and perhaps most significantly, wasteful effort. Whether you’re a guerrilla gardener or a kitchen gardener, dedicated to slow food or simply looking to live a healthier life, you will find something here—you may even be moved to start a revolution of your own.
Author : Geol Yu
Publisher : JADAM
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 20,88 MB
Release : 2018-02-10
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 8989220238
In this book, 100 plants or wild herbs known to contain defensive substances against such pest insects, have been selected. Their properties, cultivation methods, medical uses and usage in organic agriculture are explained in detail along with pictures. JADAM’s ultimate goal is to bring farming back to farmers. Through JADAM’s method, farming can become Ultra-Low-Cost, completely organic, and farmers can once again become the masters of farming. Farmers will possess the knowledge, method, and technology of farming. When organic farming becomes easy, effective and inexpensive, it can finally become a practical alternative. Farmers, consumers, and Mother Nature will all rejoice in this splendid new world we wish to open. JADAM means “people that resemble nature.” It is an organization of farmers that practices, studies and advances the JADAM organic farming system. The greatest feature of JADAM method is that it is ultra-low-cost, easy to do, completely organic and that it works. JADAM is a global network of farmers sharing knowledge, connecting experience and building on improvements; it is a continuously evolving system. JADAM system is practical; only methods that stand the test of growers will survive. JADAM is not a simple gathering of trial-and-error data; it has its unique theories and philosophy. Study JADAM and your eyes will open to a new world of soil management, microorganisms, nutrition, and pests.
Author : Masanobu Fukuoka
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,71 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9788185987002
...A natural way of farming that renounces all human knowledge and intervention. - preface.
Author : Leslie A. Duram
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 18,30 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0803204965
Compelling portraits of organic farmers bring to life facts and figures in an extensive overview of the phenomenal growth in recent years of organic production and consumption.
Author : Leah Penniman
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 30,25 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 1603587616
Farming While Black is the first comprehensive "how to" guide for aspiring African-heritage growers to reclaim their dignity as agriculturists and for all farmers to understand the distinct, technical contributions of African-heritage people to sustainable agriculture. At Soul Fire Farm, author Leah Penniman co-created the Black and Latino Farmers Immersion (BLFI) program as a container for new farmers to share growing skills in a culturally relevant and supportive environment led by people of color. Farming While Black organizes and expands upon the curriculum of the BLFI to provide readers with a concise guide to all aspects of small-scale farming, from business planning to preserving the harvest. Throughout the chapters Penniman uplifts the wisdom of the African diasporic farmers and activists whose work informs the techniques described--from whole farm planning, soil fertility, seed selection, and agroecology, to using whole foods in culturally appropriate recipes, sharing stories of ancestors, and tools for healing from the trauma associated with slavery and economic exploitation on the land. Woven throughout the book is the story of Soul Fire Farm, a national leader in the food justice movement.--AMAZON.
Author : Larry Korn
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 20,30 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1603585303
One-Straw Revolutionary is the first book to offer an intimate look at the philosophy and work of one of natural farming's most influential practitioners - Japanese farmer and philosopher Masanobu Fukuoka. This offers readers a rare insight into natural farming and what Mr. Fukuoka was like as a person. It explains how simple farming naturally actually is and why it offers our only real hope for reestablishing a wholesome relationship with the earth.
Author : Brent Preston
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 17,59 MB
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1683353021
This “must-read” memoir of human-scale agriculture offers an insider’s view of today’s food system by a leading voice in sustainable farming (Daniel Boulud). After years of working at the ends of the earth in human rights and development, Brent Preston and his wife were die-hard city dwellers. But when their second child arrived, the shine came off urban living. In 2003 they bought a hundred acres and a rundown farmhouse, determined to build a farm that would sustain their family, nourish their community, heal their environment—and turn a profit. The New Farm is Preston’s memoir of a decade of toil and perseverance. Farming is a complex and precarious business, and they made plenty of mistakes along the way. But as they learned how to grow food, and to succeed at the business of farming, they also found that a small, sustainable, organic farm could be an engine for change, a path to a more just and sustainable food system. Today, The New Farm supplies top restaurants, supports community food banks, hosts events with leading chefs, and grows extraordinary produce. Told with humor and heart, The New Farm is a joy, a passionate book by an important new voice.
Author : F. H. King
Publisher : Global Oriental
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 13,89 MB
Release : 2011-04-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9004217908
First published in 1926, this classic survey, which includes nearly 250 photographs, examines the traditional farming methods of the densely populated lands of China, Korea and Japan and shows how fertility can be maintained over many centuries through conserving and utilizing natural resources. In the Introduction, the author notes: ‘The United States as yet a nation of but few people widely scattered over a broad virgin land with more than twenty acres to the support of every man, woman and child, while the people whose practices are to be considered are toiling in fields tilled more than three thousand years and who have scarcely more than two acres per capita, more than one-half of which is uncultivable land.’ Researchers and scholars in the fields of human geography, regional studies and earth sciences, as well as social and economic history will welcome this landmark study being returned to print.