permaculture

[Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Koreen Brennan <cory8570@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks very much for this info Darren. Very interesting and helpful! Would 
> love to see more studies done on this as "anecdotal" evidence clearly shows 
> improvement.
>
> Koreen Brennan
>
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What do you need to do with a Yeomans Keyline plow? Are you planning
to buy one. If so:
1) make sure you buy a configuration that your tractor will pull,
shank length and number of shanks apply
2) you do not need hydraulic levellers, wheels, only a 3 point hitch
with 4"X4" bars to clamp the plow shanks to
3) be sure to get the proper extensions that attach to the point of
the plow shank, i.e. the holder that fits on the plow shank that the
consumable sweeps and tips attach to
4) Market Farm Implement in Friedans Pennsylvania sells the Yeomans
and most attachments
5) use it with regularity, garden row and bed tillage, field acreage,
crops of all sorts, Keyline plowing for water infiltration and erosion
control

If you own a farm tractor you could almost get by with one implement,
the Yeomans, especially if you are doing Fukuoka notill or minimum
till and own a shovel and hoe and plan to use them

In my opinion Mollison, Chadwick and Fukuoka are two of the most
important agriculture visionaries in the past hundred years.

Here's one of the reasons I like Fukuoka:
This is from a post by Larry Korn on his facebook Fukuoka page, outstanding...

Larry Korn posted in The Natural Farming of Fukuoka Masanobu
Larry Korn      3:51pm Jun 22
David asked about Sensei's views about education. I'll try to answer
as best I can. Sensei had no use for formal education. He saw it as a
way in which society teaches young people a world view that is
fundamentally flawed. It teaches students to discriminate between
trees and grasses, big and small, up and down, forever depriving that
person the true perception of reality which is undivided and
completely interconnected. This is the way we separate ourselves from
nature.

It also teaches values which Fukuoka-san did not believe were correct
and were ultimately harmful to the individual, to society and to
nature. These are values such as: people are better and more advanced
than other species, that the world was given to human beings to use
anyway they please, that it is human nature to try to understand and
control nature, that we have to go to the moon (because it's there
presumably) and to find out if we are alone in the universe, that
bigger and faster is better, and so forth.

This is FORMAL education. He strongly believed in practical and
appropriate education such as passing information such as farming
techniques, methods of food preservation and so forth down from
generation to generation. He also believed in teaching ethical values,
namely humility and gratitude. Here's another way of looking at this:
when Sensei did experiments like trying out ground covers or spreading
straw in different ways it was always to find solutions to practical
issues. He tried something, carefully watched for nature's response
and then went in the direction he was shown. Most other people,
including and especially scientists, study nature simply to try and
understand nature and use this incomplete understand to try and
manipulate nature for human benefit. Judging from the condition of the
world today, I'd say that approach hasn't really worked out all that
well.

These are just my thoughts. Perhaps others could let us know how they
feel about this topic and could perhaps share their experiences.

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Is anyone else interested in discussing the potential for Yeomans
plows in farming, homesteading and permaculture?
Fukuoka and notill too...also Japanese raised bed, all season, market
gardening...

LL