permaculture

[Primal Parent <primalparent@hotmail.com>]

http://www.otherindiabookstore.com
has them really cheap.


while we're on the subject, has anyone seen his 4th book? it's in japanese 
only and i believe the translation is 'travelling with seedballs.'  it's 
mostly color photos.

our copy was damaged by the post office...

damn, it still hurts.




> From: linda.shewan@bryn.com.au
> To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:16:51 +1100
> Subject: Re: [permaculture] Buying Masanobu Fukuoka books
> 
> 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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