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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflondon@mindspring.com>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org, marketfarming@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [permaculture] Masanobu Fukuoka and the Close to Nature Garden this Thursday at 7PM at the Blue Ridge Center
  • Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 15:32:49 -0400

Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 06:13:16 -0400
Sender: Sustainable Agriculture Network Discussion Group
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From: Allan Balliett <igg@IGG.COM>
Subject: Masanobu Fukuoka and the Close to Nature Garden
this Thursday at 7PM at the Blue Ridge Center

Masanobu Fukuoka's influence on holistic agriculture has been
enormous. He is that rare combination of inspiring philosopher and
astonishingly effective farmer. More than anyone else, he has
extended the idea that we can grow ample high-quality food for
human's by working with Nature rather than against her. (Check out
the recently published "Power of Duck" (a study of a very successful
rice/duck/loach operation in Viet Nam) for an example of how his
ideas can be applied in the Real World with great environmental and
economic success.)

From the Rodale Press:

""The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the
cultivation and perfection of human beings," Masanobu Fukuoka writes
in his book "The One Straw Revolution." He has spent 30 years
perfecting his agricultural techniques on his fertile farm in
southern Japan. Fukuoka says that his approach to agricultural
problems always starts with the question, "How about not doing such
and such?" in contrast to most agricultural thinking which
presupposes that we can improve on nature.

Mr. Fukuoka has decided not to plow, not to grow rice in flooded
fields, and not to use machinery to sow or harvest. What he does do
on his farm is documented in this unique record of a full year of
overlapping crops."

This series on human-scale sustainable agriculture, inspired by
Howard Shapiro's excellent book, GARDENING FOR THE FUTURE OF THE
EARTH, continues at the Blue Ridge Center in Purcellville, VA
(www.brces.org), Thursday evenings at 7pm, in the trailor this week.
It is presented by the Blue Ridge Center intern program. Call or
email Allan Balliett to reserve a chair: 540 668 6165
aballiett@brces.org


April 25 - Rudolf Steiner and Biodynamic Agriculture - Video: Alex
Podolinsky in Australia

May 2 - Alan Chadwick and French Intensive Biodynamic Gardening -
Video: Garden Song

May 9 - John Jeavons - Biointensive Gardening - Video: Circle of Plenty

May 16 - Masanobu Fukuoka - One Straw Revolution/Nature Gardening -
Video: The Close to Nature Garden

May 23 - Bill Mollison - Permaculture - Video: World Gardener

May 30 - Elaine Ingham - The Soil Foodweb - Video: Life in the Soil

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Plan now to attend the 2002 Mid-Atlantic Biodynamic Food and Farming
Conference at the Blue Ridge Center October 4-6, 2002 in Neersville,
VA. Featured speakers include Howard Shapiro, Glen Atkinson, Elaine
Ingham, Hugh Lovel, Hugh Courtney, James Demeo, Jerry Brunetti, Will
Winter, and, of course, Mark Shepard. For more info, see
www.gardeningforthefuture.com (under preparation) or contact Allan
Balliett at igg@igg.com or 540 668 6165


--
L.F.London
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech




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