- No-tillage, Organic farming, Agriculture, japan, Fukuoka, masanobu
Six decades ago in postwar Japan, long before Michael Pollan or Alice Waters, Masanobu Fukuoka, a laboratory scientist who had studied plant enzymes and rhizomes in Tokyo laboratories and had worked with poisonous wartime chemicals during the devastations of the Second World War, headed back to the land his father's family farmed for nearly 1,400 years.
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Earnest, contemplative, grave and warm.
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Masanobu Fukuoka
- First published
- 1978
- Pages
- 181
- Publisher
- Friends Rural Centre, Rodale Press, Bantam Books
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780553247398
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Masanobu Fukuoka was a Japanese farmer known for his commitment to natural farming and sustainable agriculture.
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