Subject: Re: Masanuba Fukouka's Natural Farming?? Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 11:21:12 GMT From: bk720@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Carl Steen) Organization: The National Capital FreeNet, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada To: sustag-public@amani.ces.ncsu.edu Exactly, as the last poster points out, Fukuoka does not want farmers from dawn to dusk, slaving away, quite the opposite. In fact, Fukuoka and his system is similar to Permaculture. I find permaculture to be fascinating, the designs and ideas are some of the most original in any farming book. The =spirit= is the most important: take nothing for granted (especially not chemical farming!) and turn your plot of land into a work of both art and nature. On the more immediate side, I do have questions about the time involved in =establishing= the self perpetuating farming system, usually years. The most practical farmers, out of necessity in history, are described in Farmers of Forty Centuries, asian farmers working often less than half an acre and feeding several families year round, no chemicals, pigs and chickens and carp ponds combined with vegetable rotations that would (or should) impress NASA space station designers.
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