The One-Straw Revolution (New York Review Books Classics)

I have been meaning to read this book for sometime but had preconceived ideas that it would be hard work to read. Not in the slightest and it has been a real page turner. Every page is full of wisdom and insight that is as relevant today as when it was written. Highly recommended.

The principles espoused by Fukuoka are obviously extremely relevant on a grand scale, but I'm not sure sure that I can afford to wait as long as he did to convert my already very productive allotment to his methods. Probably more relevant to agriculture than to small scale vegetable production.Having said that, the book is very interesing and well worth reading

This is such an amazing book, all that I had hoped for and more. It's not just about farming, more about a completely different way of seeing the world. Beautifully written, the simple insights will change the way you think about the world we live in and our place with them. Highly recommended.

The One-Straw Revolution is not really written as a book, but as a collection of short discursions. These cover the author's life, his farming methods, his conversations with the students that visited his farm, and his philosophy on the impossibility of understanding nature. For me the book got a bit repetitive by the end, but it was never less than readable and thought provoking. With hindsight I would have simply launched straight into reading the book, and left the rather wordy introductions by other authors till later.If you are interested in the Japanese approach to life, then you might find "Japanese Woodworking Tools: Their Tradition, Spirit and Use" by Toshio Odate, of interest too.Japanese Woodworking Tools: Their Tradition, Spirit and UseI suspect that often we are striving to find a technical solution to the wrong questions, when books like this can make us wonder if maybe we should be asking a better question. File next to Thoreau's Walden.Also worth seeking out material on Sepp Holzer the Austrian permaculturist and Against the Grain by Richard Manning, if you can find a copy.

The original and genuine first English language publication written and published in India - the foreword talks about Masaobu Fukuoka's transformation of a Quaker settlement right across the road from where I worked. I much prefer this version to the later American one by Larry Corn.Masanobu is the father of Natural Farming and his story of how that came about and how he tried to stop profiteers charging higher prices for higher-quality food which cost less to grow than unhealthy mass-produced monoculture food is something to be aware of when we are overcharged for organic produce, and the natural methods of preventing pest and disease should be a lesson to all food-crop growers. This book should be bought by all who want healthy food and those who are interested in Natural Farming and Permaculture. Together with Patrick Whitefields 'Permaculture'in a Nutshell' and Aranya's 'Permaculture Design, 'One Straw revolution' these three little books comprehensively cover what is needed to get our food growing back to being healthy again and our bodies free of pesticides and biocides. Get all three!.

Essential. Written by a former scientist with artisan roots, who underwent a spiritual transformation. This is an Ur-text that should be up with Schumaker and other prophets of sanity. If only the greed-heads could assimilate it! This book is also a beautiful artefact.

This book introduced me to the concept of no till farming and gardening; the notion of permaculture and how nature being in balance should be a patient aspiration.

Brilliant because of the impact it made in the permaculture/natural farming world, and also because he speaks a beautiful philosophy on how our farming and lifestyles need to be integrated into nature, not just for our benefit but as a necessity for healing the earth. he shows that not only does following the flow of nature work for farming, but also how it provides healthier food for us.

Best read in a good few years. Beautiful and awe inspiring, to say the least

O autor mostra a sensibilidade perdida pelo agricultor "moderno". Entender a Natureza é estar atento aos seus processos e a interdependência de todos os elementos envolvidos. Leitura imprescindível aos que buscam produzir respeitando a Terra.

J'adore ce livre. Si vous vous intéressez à la permaculture, ce livre est un must have !

This is an amazing enlightening book about all that went wrong to produce meat/food for large human population across the globe in last one century. This would confirm how humans with their limited understanding of nature is fiddling with it at an unprecedented scale that can lead to large scale problems we would never be able to overcome. Modern agriculture is leading to desertification of soil impacting many lives (insects, birds, worms etc.) dependent on it and giving us no nutrition food purely grown of chemicals like fertilizers, insecticides, weedicides etc. Book tells and discusses right corrective action to fix the issues from the root cause instead of treating symptoms.

Un libro importante per chi cerca spunti di riflessione sull'agricoltura e piu in generale sulla vita odierna. anche se il volume è datato il pensiero filosofico in esso è sempre attuale.Peccato non sia disponibile, almeno in formato digitale, in italiano