And no neat and tidy rows of plants and trees like we have grown accustomed to seeing on conventional farms. He began doing less of what so many other farmers had been doing. Dissatisfied with the increasing emphasis on science over nature, he quit his job, returned to his family farm and set out to do things differently.
Fukuoka was a Japanese plant scientist who came of age after World War II as Japan was adopting Western agricultural practices and their associated chemicals. The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka (translated by Larry Korn) is the story of one person who saw what was wrong with industrial agriculture (in the early days of industrial agriculture) and completely reinvented agriculture. It turns out that so much of what we’ve been told about gardening and farming over the past few decades - from the usage of pesticides and fertilizers to the annual tilling of soil - has turned out not only to be bad for the soil but bad for the planet.
But since undertaking a rather intensive gardener training program I now know just how little I actually knew about gardening. I thought I knew a thing or two about gardening.
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