Natural agriculture

Masanobu Fukuoka. Editions Trédaniel. 326 pages.

Theory and practice for a green philosophy.

Imagine farming without ploughing, fertilizers, chemical herbicides or even compost!
Fukuoka has learned not to ask the impossible of nature, and he gets incredibly high yields in return. Instead of striving to do a little more, he has looked for ways to do less, to put an end to unnecessary work, and yet his land grows richer every year. He has reduced his costs, equipment and technical resources to the strict minimum, to stick to an independent economy that preserves a healthier, more balanced natural cycle. He offers us the stimulating image of a properly managed land, the cornerstone of a society of sufficiency, permanence and self-generation.

Masanobu Fukuoka is one of the few people to have devoted more than fifty years of his life to agriculture, which he sees as a path to spiritual fulfillment.
Even rarer, in this age of over-specialization, is his grasp of the reciprocal relationships that exist between all aspects of human society and nature. Celebrated as the "Lao Tzu of modern times" by his compatriots for his paradoxical wisdom, he returns to the very sources of agricultural traditions, while being at the vanguard of post-industrial civilization. He overturns preconceived ideas and rationalist reductions of the world, to help us discover the roots of a healthy and authentic way of life, providing us with proof of the truth he advances, through his practice of agriculture.