NATURE FARMING – DONE NATURALLY
The cultivator in Gabriel Guhr’s video cites his very simple methods – throwing seeds across the land, covering them with straw from the grass removed when clearing the land and walking over the straw to trample the seeds into the ground. No tilling, no carefully measured placement of seeds, just a well chosen location and allowing life to do what it does best. As the speaker in the video states “It’s a very efficient planting method.” But what method is that, exactly?
DO-NOTHING FARMING
The speaker in the film states that his plan was to imitate as best as possible the methods of Masanobu Fukuoka, the man who wrote extensively on and pioneered the Fukuoka method, which is translated directly into English as Nature Farming, previously referred to as Natural Farming. This method came about after Masanobu felt he could no longer reconcile himself with the agricultural methods that were being promulgated around the 1930’s. Trained as a microbiologist and agricultural scientist but choosing to break away from the methodologies he had been studying, he became the creator of “Do-nothing farming” or Nature Farming.
This method is related to traditional methods of cultivation used by indigenous cultures and has the same objectives as that of permaculture created by Bill Mollison, but functions under a different, more spiritual philosophy.
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