![]() ![]() When fields are ploughed, or trees are pruned, farmers create problems for themselves which mean more work. It only seems to solve problems that it created in the first place, like a man who breaks his own roof and then is pleased with himself when he manages to fix it. Science, Fukuoka concluded, is part of the problem, not the solution. Shortly afterwards, he had something of an epiphany about science, and gave up his job and returned to the countryside to farm. It’s something of a classic in permaculture and organic gardening circles.įukuoka was a plant scientist working in Japan in the 1940s, advising the government on the best crops and edible plants to sustain the country during the war. ![]() I first heard of it through Tom Hodgkinson at the Idler, and have seen it mentioned several times since then in various places. This week I’ve read an extraordinary book, Masanobu Fukuoka’s One Straw Revolution. ![]()
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