permaculture

[venaurafarm <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>]

On 10/27/2012 4:37 PM, Dieter Brand wrote:
> > I put forth the idea that natural farming receives discourse on
> > this list
>
> I think nobody will object to natural farming issues being discussed
> on this list; however, I suspect that there may not be sufficient
> interest to generate a lively discussion.
>
> My idea has been a general Natural Farming list which would host
> discussions related to different schools of Natural Farming.  In my
> experience, discussion of methods used by different schools of
> Natural Farming is often met by hostility on the Fukuoka list.
> That's why I gave up.
>
> My preferred Natural Farming (NF) list would include discussions on:
> - NF according MOA (Mokiichi Okada Association) - EM according to
> Prof. Hige, which is a continuation of MOA - NF according to Shumei,
> which is a splinter group of MOA - NF according to Fukuoka - NF
> according to Kawaguchi, which is the most popular today - Korean
> Natural Farming according to Dr. Cho - Philippines Natural farming
> which is inspired by Dr. Cho - Examples of NF in India - Examples of
> NF in the West - Practical methods for adopting NF to different
> regions - Examples of traditional farming compatible with NF -
> Others.
>
> The trouble is that most NF traditions are of Far Eastern origin and,
> except for Fukuoka, not readily available in English.  That explains
> probably why the only discussion is on Fukuoka.

I created the following resources at Google:

Fukuoka Natural Farming
New Google resources on Masanobu Fukuoka Natural Farming

fukuokanaturalfarming site
fukuokanaturalfarming
https://sites.google.com/site/fukuokanaturalfarming/

fukuokanaturalfarming group
fukuokanaturalfarming
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/fukuokanaturalfarming

fukuokanaturalfarming blog
fukuokanaturalfarming
http://fukuokanaturalfarming.blogspot.com/

Fukuoka Natural Farming Google+ page
fukuokanaturalfarming
https://plus.google.com/b/110283802853538126401/110283802853538126401