permaculture

[Linda Shewan <linda.shewan@bryn.com.au>]

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@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 27 November 2007 11:55 AM
To: permaculture@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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