{"id":19062,"date":"2016-03-21T12:43:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T17:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19062"},"modified":"2016-03-21T12:44:13","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T17:44:13","slug":"nature-farming-done-naturally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19062","title":{"rendered":"Nature Farming&#8211;Done Naturally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"post-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"http:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Nature-Farming-Done-Naturally.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Nature-Farming-Done-Naturally-300x130.png 300x, http:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Nature-Farming-Done-Naturally.png 690x\" alt=\"Nature Farming - Done Naturally\" width=\"690\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/2016\/03\/21\/nature-farming-done-naturally\/\" target=\"_blank\">NATURE FARMING \u2013 DONE NATURALLY<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-meta\">Throwing some seeds over a cleared piece of land may seem a haphazard method of farming, a negative person may say it\u2019s doomed to failure, but proof to the contrary is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ygR9I0grySQ\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 a happy plant-filled field that will produce a great yield. It may seem like beginner\u2019s luck that the rice paddy growing so happily, when actually it is an ancient secret that man is starting to be willing to see evidence of again.<\/div>\n<p>The cultivator in Gabriel Guhr\u2019s video cites his very simple methods \u2013 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\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s a very efficient planting method.\u201d\u00a0But what method is that, exactly?<\/p>\n<p><strong>DO-NOTHING FARMING<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s. Trained as a microbiologist and agricultural scientist but choosing to break away from the methodologies he had been studying, he became the creator of\u00a0\u201cDo-nothing farming\u201d\u00a0or Nature Farming.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NATURE FARMING \u2013 DONE NATURALLY Throwing some seeds over a cleared piece of land may seem a haphazard method of farming, a negative person may say it\u2019s doomed to failure, but proof to the contrary is\u00a0here\u00a0\u2013 a happy plant-filled field that will produce a great yield. 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