[permaculture] Buying Masanobu Fukuoka books
Linda Shewan
linda.shewan at bryn.com.au
Mon Nov 26 20:16:51 EST 2007
Depends what you want out of them.
Everyone I know who has read them has been inspired, including myself, particularly The One Straw Revolution. I think it helps if you tend toward the spiritual aspect of working with nature to provide food rather than 'gardening' per se. One permaculture person looks at these things quite differently from another eg. pruning or not pruning trees, planning guilds or letting nature choose where a plant will grow etc etc. He says that the real aim of farming is not the growing of food but the perfection of the human spirit... (or similar).
But on the other hand he is seriously talking about farming techniques, particularly in his rice/barley fields and his second book has detail on crop rotations, improving the soil etc.
Why don't you get a copy from the library and see if what he says gels before you buy them? The www.soilandhealth.org library has a copy of his first 2 books.
Linda
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew French [mailto:alienbuddha at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 27 November 2007 11:55 AM
To: permaculture at lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [permaculture] Buying Masanobu Fukuoka books
I would like to buy his books but I can't find a solid deal anywhere.
Anybody have any suggestions? Plus, are they worth buying?
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