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Call it Zen and the Art of Farming or a Little Green Book, Masanobu Fukuokas 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 natures 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 youre a guerrilla gardener or a kitchen gardener, dedicated to slow food or simply looking to live a healthier life, you will find something hereyou may even be moved to start a revolution of your own.

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MASANOBU FUKUOKA (19132008) was born and raised on the Japanese island of Shikoku. He was the oldest son of a rice farmer who was also the local mayor. Fukuoka studied plant pathology and worked for three years as a produce inspector in the customs office in Yokohama. But in 1938 he returned to his village home determined to put his ideas about natural farming into practice. During World War II, he worked for the Japanese government as a researcher on food production, managing to avoid military service until the final few months of the war. After the war, he returned to his birthplace to devote himself wholeheartedly to farming. And in 1975, distressed by the effects of Japan's post-war modernization, Fukuoka wrote The One-Straw Revolution . In his later years, Fukuoka was involved with several projects to reduce desertification throughout the world. He remained an active farmer until well into his eighties, and continued to give lectures until only a few years before his death at the age of ninety-five. Fukuoka is also the author of The Natural Way of Farming and The Road Back to Nature . In 1988 he received the Magsaysay Award for Public Service.

FRANCES MOORE LAPP is author or co-author of sixteen books, including Diet for a Small Planet and Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad . She has co-founded three organizations, including the Institute for Food and Development Policy and, more recently, the Small Planet Institute, which she leads with her daughter Anna Lapp. In 1987, she received the Right Livelihood Award, also called the "Alternative Nobel." She has received seventeen honorary doctorates and has been a visiting scholar at MIT.

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THIS IS A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOK

PUBLISHED BY THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS

435 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014

www.nyrb.com

Copyright 1978 by Masanobu Fukuoka

Introduction copyright 2009 by Frances Moore Lapp

All rights reserved.

Translated from the Japanese by Larry Korn, Chris Pearce, and Tsune Kurosawe

Originally published in Japan as Shizen Noho Wara Ippon No Kakumei by Hakujusha Co., Ltd., Tokyo

Series cover design by Katy Homans; cover art by Luba Lukova

The publisher wishes to thank Michiyo Shibuya and Larry Korn for their assistance in the preparation of this volume.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Fukuoka, Masanobu.

[Shizen noho wara ippon no kakumei. English]

The one-straw revolution: an introduction to natural farming / by Masanobu Fukuoka; translated from the Japanese by Larry Korn, Chris Pearce, and Tsune Kurosawa; preface by Wendell Berry; introduction by Frances Moore Lapp; with a new afterword by the author.

p. cm. (New York Review Books classics)

Originally published: Emmaus, Pa.: Rodale Press, 1978.

Includes bibliographical references.

No-tillage. Organic farming. No-tillageJapan. Organic farmingJapan. I. Title. II. Title: Introduction to natural farming. III. Series.

S604.F8413 2009

631.5'84dc22

2008053698

eISBN 978-1-59017-392-3

For a complete list of books in the NYRB Classics series, visit www.nyrb.com or write to:
Catalog Requests, NYRB, 435 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014

Editors Introduction Near a small village on the island of Shikoku in - photo 1

Editor's Introduction

Near a small village on the island of Shikoku in southern Japan, Masanobu Fukuoka has been developing a method of natural farming which could help to reverse the degenerative momentum of modern agriculture. Natural farming requires no machines, no chemicals, and very little weeding. Mr. Fukuoka does not plow the soil or use prepared compost. He does not hold water in his rice fields throughout the growing season as farmers have done for centuries in the Orient and around the world. The soil of his fields has been left unplowed for over twenty-five years, yet their yields compare favorably with those of the most productive Japanese farms. His method of farming requires less labor than any other. It creates no pollution and does not require the use of fossil fuels.

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