Reddit reviews The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming (New York Review Books Classics)

If you like reading, check out this book! Not a cannabis book but one of my favorite things I've read all year.

> The great thing about living environmentally mindful is you don't have to join a huge revolution or live in a commune. It's really a slow process, changing your life, habits, and ways to better benefit the environment and the sentient beings inhabiting the Earth.

This statement right here reminded me of The One-Straw Revolution. Masanobu Fukuoka is a true spiritual leader to me! Much more than just an organic farmer. I highly recommend checking out that book if you haven't read it before.

I like all the advice you give (and follow a lot of it already). Growing a beard is obviously the most eco-friendly option for guys, but some of us need to be clean-shaven for our jobs (and also just have trash-staches and patchy facial hair anyhow). I've been stuck with disposable razor heads for the time being (although I use the same head for an entire week, at least), but I've been wanting to hop on the double-edge/straight razor bandwagon for a while now as a more ecologically sound alternative (besides all the other benefits it supposedly has).

http://www.appropedia.org/images/d/d3/Onestraw.pdf

or

https://www.amazon.com/One-Straw-Revolution-Introduction-Natural-Classics/dp/1590173139

I'm going to give the PDF a quick glance and see if it's something I will actually read. If so, I'm going to buy it, hoping the money somehow gets back to the author or at least someone that can use it to spread the message about organic farming. Globally, we need fewer chemicals and more microbes the soil. I'm game to support that cause.

Honestly I dont understand it enough to recommend something specific. If you want to do some reading, the first stop is One Straw Revolution. Its more of a philosophical manifesto than a how-to but itll get you started in the right direction. After that, the "Teeming with..." series by Jeff Lowenfels is a good stop. Thats where im at now

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Sepp Holzer's Permaculture
more practical, experiential knowledge. some really interesting hacks and tricks.

Creating a Forest Garden
more technical ecology stuff. more on the scientific side.

One Straw Revolution
Essential. The philosophy of do nothing farming, know nothing farming. Humility before nature and complex systems.

Starting from here:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_succession#Forest_succession

> https://www.amazon.com/One-Straw-Revolution-Introduction-Natural-Classics/dp/1590173139

The core idea is that, for the project to implement long-term food production and other resource productions, extracted from a forest with rich biodiversity, the earliest stages requires the heaviest human intervention, with the possible need to import fertilizers to the land, and as the system evolves to a climax forest, the system no longer needs imported fertilizers to sustain itself, and human intervention becomes less blunt and more surgical

We can use all currently avaliable tools and technologies for humans to monitor and intervene, and for harvesting resources from tall trees, we can use drones . The great diversity of resources here allows us to be self-sufficient in several different ways

Haha I know right ! Its funny you should mention farming in Japan because I'm currenty readng this book

http://www.amazon.com/The-One-Straw-Revolution-Introduction-Classics/dp/1590173139

Its basically about organic farming and how if one farms in co-ordination with natural events (eg. natural decomposition of crops fertilising the land with humus) farming becomes effortless. The author also tries to link in the principles of farming to everyday life.

I'd like to do tropical agriculture, but I think I'd most likely have to go to the US to pursue that topic specifically, agricultural courses are thin on the ground in the UK tbh which is quite surprising

Hmm your points on the more practical work is useful, at least in helps me decide what I should and shouldn't buy