Fukuoka gets better soil with no-till
http://www.permies.com Larry Korn spent three years with Masanobu fukuoka and did the translation for the excellent book "One Straw Revolution". He is now a permaculture instructor in Ashland, Oregon. Larry gives a bit of his background especially as it reflect on his time with Fukuoka. He explains how he studied soil and plant nutrition in college. I think the key point in this video is where he talks about in college how bad plowing is. His college professor says "we just don't know how to grow food any other way". Years pass and he meets Fukuoka. Who has far superior soil and is growing food without plowing. Larry explains the sustainability of living there. They produced 95% of their own food from an edible food forest. Relevant threads at permies: http://www.permies.com/permaculture-forums/2214_0/permaculture/masanobu-fukuoka music by Jimmy Pardo
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Has anyone replicated his output since then?
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amazing experience. everybody deserve this kind of living, no anxiety, living with nature.
i agree the modern agriculture is turning the field into desert, where only expensive chemicals and machinery could make crop grow. -
Can somebody tell me how he got rid of the grass to replace it with the cover crops(white clover). I really want to know the answer!
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Thanks much.
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I'm interested in no-till gardening. We've decided not to till because we want to grow food without using fossil fuel, but we use a shovel to turn the soil. I feel bad about that, because of the earthworms that sometimes get sliced. The question is...what do you do about slugs???
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i just want to know if this method of farming has been adopted in other place? results?
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i'm only jealous....
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hmm.. the cynic in me is thinking about that free labor force out in the field every day not tilling that wonderful soil for a few vegetables..isn't that just like the way we've done agriculture in Britain for hundreds of years, minus the plough...
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Quality over quantity, the more nutrient dense your food is the less you need to eat.
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oh yeah, definitely, noticed a lot of that when i was in oregon also. i had this odd pass-time of wandering around japan via google street view and yeah, gardens everywhere. Funny thing, i live in a city with a violent crime rate always in the top five for the nation. well, the old industrial part of town(crumbling) is ffuulll of gardens, everywhere, apple trees all over the place(and because the city no longer 'maintains' the spaces, lots of wild edibles also).
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Yet the US government made it work through USDA agricultural extension programs, particularly during WWII. If we were able to replace the "Lord of the Manor" grass growing mentality with "grow your own vegetables," imagine the "scale" of food production and the consequential "de-scaling" of mass agriculture that's creating all kinds of problems (carbon footprint, soil erosion, etc). When I visited Japan, I was amazed to see gardens EVERYWHERE. Thanks again for the video, Permie team!
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If I could just note, Fukuoka is also a prefecture and city on Kyushu in Japan. It took me a while to realize that the Fukuoka referenced here is a person not a place. It might be better to state that in any future titles. BUT I think this is really awesome information, I am hopeful to do Woofing while in Japan and I hope I can find a farm like this one!
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He's dripping with enlightenment or maybe that's the rain...
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so then the issue becomes the whole. Its unquestionable that industrial farming cannot continue forever and creates more losses than gains. Yet, this type of farming obviously will not fit in into out current cultural and societal paradigm/mindset. So the issue really is redefining what food is, how health and diet are in no way mutually exclusive, and what food means in ones lifestyle. it'll come around eventually(seems it has to)
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The statement feed the masses, just accumulates more people dependant on others to fullfill their needs. Overpopulation by humans are devastating the planet. The overpopulaters are the ones that back all the destructive behaviours, because they are also dependant on those that feed them, and not caring about the way that it is accomplished. Ignorance is bliss when fed ignorance. Anf the feeders of ignorance love the ignorants because they don't have to change to please them.
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The earth should be a forest of food. Reforestate the planet with edibles and breathables and filtrationables and erosion inhibitive plants.
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Wow, somebody who actually knew Fukuoka. Very interesting!
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What an INCREDIBLE story!! I could have easily sat here and listened for another hour about all the details! Amazing video, and I wanna thank you for uploading it! :)
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@ PAULWHEATON! i am getting addicted to your videos, you are doing a very nice job!
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less people maybe...or many more farmers that farm in this way to feed the masses and positively impact the environment globally. Farming this way multiplied exponentially, could drastically improve the planets environment/atmosphere.
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