paul wheaton
03-25-2011, 08:06 AM
It's about 45 minutes long.
Masanobu Fukuoka is the author of One Straw Revolution and Larry Korn not only did the translation, but worked as an intern for Fukuoka in the 70's.
Fukuoka is best known for his "do nothing farming" where he gets rice crops in the top 5% of production per acre in Japan without tilling, without external fertilizers, without pesticides, without transplanting .... And while his neighbors rice fields sit fallow over the winter, Fukuoka grows a bonus crop of barley.
This podcast includes a bit about when Fukuoka and Bill Mollison (inventor of permaculture) first met. Plus information on Fukuoka's brilliant no-pruning fruit tree management.
http://www.richsoil.com/permaculture/98-masanobu-fukuoka-larry-korn-podcast-007/
Masanobu Fukuoka is the author of One Straw Revolution and Larry Korn not only did the translation, but worked as an intern for Fukuoka in the 70's.
Fukuoka is best known for his "do nothing farming" where he gets rice crops in the top 5% of production per acre in Japan without tilling, without external fertilizers, without pesticides, without transplanting .... And while his neighbors rice fields sit fallow over the winter, Fukuoka grows a bonus crop of barley.
This podcast includes a bit about when Fukuoka and Bill Mollison (inventor of permaculture) first met. Plus information on Fukuoka's brilliant no-pruning fruit tree management.
http://www.richsoil.com/permaculture/98-masanobu-fukuoka-larry-korn-podcast-007/