permaculture

[robyn@permaculture.com.au]

Hi Dieter, the people subscribing to this system had never heard of  
Fukuoka. From what i understand this particular NF system came from  
Korea and has quite a following in parts of Japan. Fukuoka used  
legumes, had chickens and rotated his crops, there's absolutely no  
connection with him or his particular Natural Way of Farming.

 My permie colleagues in Taiwan are quite concerned at the growth and  
popularity of this particular form of NF as it's very dogmatic and  
people with no understanding of natural/organic gardening or farming  
systems looking for alternatives to chemical ag are easily caught up  
by the hype and self-rightiousness of it's advocates. It's not a  
matter of cross cultural miscommunications, it's a very narrow  
dogmatic approach to growing food based on flawed assumptions.

I have come across many weird theories over the years regarding nature  
and food production so am not entirely surprised there's folk gullible  
enough to swallow this stuff.

It's actually quite unfortunate that this pseudo-science carries the  
name Natural Farming. I am primarily bringing this info into the  
conversation on NF to make at least those on this list aware that  
there's some strange stuff out there going under the banner of  
"Natural Farming" which is far removed and totally disconnected from  
anything Fukuoka ever did or taught.

Robyn

Quoting Dieter Brand <diebrand@yahoo.com>:

> > Theres aNatural Farming system that
> > is gaining popularity in parts of 
> > Asia, had a few folk doing PDCs in Taiwan the past few years
> > into one 
> > of these new NF systems. they dont "believe" in use of
> > compost, mulch, 
> > worms, animal manures, legumes or crop rotation, you plant
> > the same 
> > plant  in the same place year after year and the plant
>
> That is a dogmatic interpretation of Fukuoka I have found among Westerners.
>
> I haven't heard of any natural farmers in the Far East taking that  
> dogmatic approach.
>
> Communication across the cultural divide can sometimes lead to  
> misunderstanding.
>
> Dieter
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