Sowing Seeds in the Desert: Natural Farming, Global Restoration, and Ultimate Food Security

Description

Author: Fukuoka, Masanobu  (1913-2008)

Publisher: Chelsea Green (White River Junction, VT)

Pub Date: 2012

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Book:  Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Dust Jacket: Good.  NOT price clipped.  Very light edge and corner wear.

Notes:  Fukuoka was the author of the agricultural classic The One-Straw Revolution (Rodale Books, 1978), a foundational work on natural, organic, sustainable agriculture.  “When we change the way we grow our food, we change our food, we change society, we change our values.” (From Wendell Berry’s Preface to The One-Straw Revolution).  In this volume Fukuoka writes about the corporatization of agriculture, climate change, global poverty, desertification, and his world travels, preaching the gospel of natural farming.  “His natural farming technique requires no machinery or fossil fuel, no chemicals, no prepared compost, and very little weeding… His method created no pollution, and the fertility of his fields improved with each season.”  (From the Introduction)  Save me first, I’m a farmer!