permaculture

[Steve Diver <steved@ncatark.uark.edu>]

How to grow winter wheat? | The Fukuoka-Bonfils method
ILEIA Newsletter | December 2000
http://www.ileia.org/2/16-4/13.PDF

"At the end of June – much earlier than
in the traditional way - wheat is sown, or
rather pressed into the soil at a spacing of
60cm, through the carpet of spreading
perennial clover, previously sown in April."

Also, this booklet from eco-logic books:

The Harmonious Wheatsmith
Mark Moodie
"The only text on the Bonfils/Fukuoka no-till methods of cereal
cultivation.  A delightfully idiosyncratic booklet with quirky
illustrations. A text to shift paradigms with. £4.00"
http://www.ragmans.co.uk/eco-logic/food.html
http://www.eco-logicbooks.com/eco-logic_catalogue_10-2001.pdf

Interesting method, especially in view of the perennial search
for a parallel Fukuoka method in Europe and North America.

Some of the undersowing techniques used in ley farming also
come to mind.

Steve Diver