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| - | *For fertilizer Mr. Fukuoka grows a leguminous ground cover of white clover, | + | *For fertilizer Mr. Fukuoka grows a leguminous ground cover of white clover, and returns all the trash straw and chaff to the field, and adds a little poultry (chickens or ducks) manure to help decompose the straw, and helps to control the weeds. |
| - | and returns all the trash straw and chaff to the field, and adds a little poultry | + | |
| - | (chickens or ducks) manure to help decompose the straw, and helps to control the | + | |
| - | weeds.\ | + | |
| *There is no need in working hard to make compost. If straw is left lying on thesurface of the field in the spring or fall and is covered with a thin layer of chicken manure or duck droppings, in six months straw and clover are a simple way to control weeds | *There is no need in working hard to make compost. If straw is left lying on thesurface of the field in the spring or fall and is covered with a thin layer of chicken manure or duck droppings, in six months straw and clover are a simple way to control weeds | ||
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| *It is best to toss the straw around every which way, just as though the stalks had fallen naturally | *It is best to toss the straw around every which way, just as though the stalks had fallen naturally | ||
| - | ***Seed balls**: | + | ***Seed balls:** germination is best on the surface of the ground, where there is exposure to oxygen. And where these pellets are covered with straw, the seeds germinate well and will not rot even in years of heavy rainfall. |
| **Example to fertilize the ground:** For instance the roots of an acacia tree improves the soil deep down, clover as a manure for the surface layer and daikon for the middle layer.In the end you will have a dark and soft ground. | **Example to fertilize the ground:** For instance the roots of an acacia tree improves the soil deep down, clover as a manure for the surface layer and daikon for the middle layer.In the end you will have a dark and soft ground. | ||
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| *Rather than growing vegatables or apples up here, he says he has been helping to restore the fertility of the soil | *Rather than growing vegatables or apples up here, he says he has been helping to restore the fertility of the soil | ||
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| ==== Do-nothing farming ==== | ==== Do-nothing farming ==== | ||
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| *Never make a useless step | *Never make a useless step | ||
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| ==== Four principles of natural farming ==== | ==== Four principles of natural farming ==== | ||
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| *no dependence on chemicals | *no dependence on chemicals | ||
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| ==== Various thoughts ==== | ==== Various thoughts ==== | ||
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| *The ones who see true nature are infants, they see without thinking, straight and clear. | *The ones who see true nature are infants, they see without thinking, straight and clear. | ||
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| *In japan, not so long ago the daily meal of the farmers in his area consisted of rice and barley with miso and pickled vegetables. | *In japan, not so long ago the daily meal of the farmers in his area consisted of rice and barley with miso and pickled vegetables. | ||
| - | *A nutritious diet which doesnot include | + | *A nutritious diet which doesnot include |
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| - | A life of small-scale farming may appear to be primitive, but in living such a life | + | *A life of small-scale farming may appear to be primitive, but in living such a life it becomes possible to contemplate the Great Way (the path of spiritual awareness which involves attentiveness to and care for the ordinary activities of daily life). He believes that if ones fathoms deeply in one's own neighboorhoud and the everyday world in which he lives, the greatest of worlds will be revealed. To be here in a small field, in full possession of the freedom and plenitude of each day, every day - this must have been the original way of agriculture. |
| - | it becomes possible to contemplate the Great Way (the path of spiritual awareness | + | |
| - | which involves attentiveness to and care for the ordinary activities of daily life). | + | *Natural farming arises of itself when unity exists between man and nature. It conformes to nature as it is, and to the mind as it is. It proceeds from the conviction that if the individual tempararily abandons human will and so allows himself to be guided by nature, nature responds by providing everything. |
| - | He believes that if ones fathoms deeply in one's own neighboorhoud and the everyday | + | |
| - | world in which he lives, the greatest of worlds will be revealed. To be here in a | + | *The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings |
| - | small field, in full possession of the freedom and plenitude of each day, every day | + | |
| - | - this must have been the original way of agriculture.\ | + | *What is the natural pattern, was always in his mind |
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| - | Natural farming arises of itself when unity exists between man and nature. It | + | ---- |
| - | conformes to nature as it is, and to the mind as it is. It proceeds from the | + | |
| - | conviction that if the individual tempararily abandons human will and so allows | + | |
| - | himself to be guided by nature, nature responds by providing everything.\ | + | |
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| - | The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and | + | |
| - | perfection of human beings\ | + | |
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| - | What is the natural pattern, was always in his mind\ | + | |
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