This is an announcement for those who live in Tokyo area. There will be a lecture and demonstration of Kawaguchi style natural farming, "Shizen-nou" in the...
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Robert Monie
bobm20001
Jun 5, 2003 10:34 pm
Hi Norie, I believe you are writing to us from Japan. Thanks for your interest. The photo of the (single) banana tree provided on the guild site you gave...
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Leland Lehrman
gate44o
Jun 6, 2003 4:37 am
What an awesome set of new participants we have here, stimulating Robert and the rest of us to new heights of discourse and useful information transmission. I...
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EponaLady
Jun 6, 2003 5:46 am
Gloria, Tell me more about the strawberries in the weeds. I just pulled some weeds from around my strawberries today. I noticed the stems were getting taller...
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John Warner
daddyoat
Jun 6, 2003 6:43 am
Hello Fukuokans! This post is in response to Aaron's questions. Thank you, Aaron for asking them. Where do we sell flowers? We have 3 year around market days...
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animaphile
Jun 6, 2003 6:52 am
G'day, there are various interesting sites mentioned by Michiyo Shibuya and others in this group, as someone said it seems many are approaching Fukuoka's...
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Don Graves
dgraves@...
Jun 6, 2003 7:09 am
THANKYOU Leland! & KIA ORA EVERYONE rational? or irrational? ... KNOWing, LOVE, GOD, LIFE, GAEA we mere Human peoples place & or inherit concepts of CREATivity...
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jamie
souscayrous
Jun 6, 2003 10:11 am
Hello John, good luck and hope you'll be back here dispensing more practical information soon. Jamie Souscayrous ... From: John Warner...
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jamie
souscayrous
Jun 6, 2003 10:26 am
Hello Aaron, yes, more effort to create 'human-centred' conditions will create more work to maintain those conditions. But less effort to create ...
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Michiyo Shibuya
michiyos@...
Jun 6, 2003 11:02 am
Hello Animaphile, Thank you for the link to the translator. I kind of doubt if this helps(I just tried now), but as you say, it is better than nothing. Here is...
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Michiyo Shibuya
michiyos@...
Jun 6, 2003 11:53 am
I forgot to announce one more lecture. October 12th, 2003 lecture by Masanobu Fukuoka there will be ten other speakers 9:30-21:00 time table is not available...
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Michael Vanecek
mikevanecek
Jun 6, 2003 2:39 pm
Is this a list discussing the concepts of natural farming as expounded by Fukuoka, or have I slipped into a Religious-R-Us list with a misnomer for a name? If...
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jamie
souscayrous
Jun 6, 2003 4:05 pm
Hello Michael, I know discussion of 'God' can lead to many forks in the road, some best avoided, but Fukuoka does try to talk about a 'god' permeating his work...
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Tim Peters
psr@...
Jun 6, 2003 5:00 pm
Religion, nature, gardening - farming ...Fukuoka, did he segment and isolate them from each other? Part of the problem we are wrestling with is 'origins39;, ......
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AaronBrachfeld@...
Jun 6, 2003 6:17 pm
On my own farm, I practice the no-work principal and through a slow education process (including free samples) I have gotten a wide customer base to enjoy the...
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Gloria C. Baikauskas
gloriawb
Jun 6, 2003 6:35 pm
... growing by themselves, ... Heather, I am growing the very same varieties of strawberries as you are. The strawberries before I let them grow in the weeds...
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Michael Vanecek
mikevanecek
Jun 6, 2003 7:26 pm
Oh. Hmm. Well, don't mind me then. I do attribute a *lot* to the creator...I39;m just not very noisy about it. Kinda like...well, not feeling the need to say...
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bobm20001
Jun 6, 2003 8:15 pm
- Hi Aaron, Now that I see you are not trying to come up with a General Theory of Natural Farming (or worse yet, of all living things and their relationships)...
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Robert Monie
bobm20001
Jun 6, 2003 10:04 pm
Hi Michiyo, Do you know much about Yoshikazu Kawaguchi? Can you tell us more about him and his approach to natural farming? Was he a student of Fukuoka's? The...
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Rishi Miranhshah
whentheshoefits
Jun 7, 2003 4:04 am
Robert: Banana trees are gone, and i'm not sure the suggestion i'm making is viable in your climate/soil, still... i remember my mother growing turmeric...
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animaphile
Jun 7, 2003 7:11 am
... about him and his approach to natural farming? Was he a student of Fukuoka's? The only writing by him I have been able to find in English is a short...
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animaphile
Jun 7, 2003 8:34 am
************************************************************* From http://www.fs.fed.us/eco/eco-watch/ew930506 ...
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Ingrid Bauer/Jean-Cla...
natural_wisd...
Jun 7, 2003 8:43 am
... I didn't find the time to answer it but i am very interested to have a more complete meaning for the essentials concepts in Masanobu'writing . can you say...
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Ingrid Bauer/Jean-Cla...
natural_wisd...
Jun 7, 2003 9:02 am
... didn't see the attached article ,your contribution was very interesting to read .i appreciated it as i questionne the choice made with the invention of ...
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animaphile
Jun 7, 2003 11:30 am
... contribution ... interesting to ... invention of ... life ... the scheme ... neolithic ... improve ... they almost ... disturbing ... Actually, the...
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animaphile
Jun 7, 2003 11:48 am
... have a more ... Very Briefly (more later) in English my best translation, an idiomatic (or culturally translated) translation, is for MU: * Not contrived *...
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Robert Monie
bobm20001
Jun 7, 2003 12:35 pm
Hi Rishi, If your suggestion is a "complication," at least it is a tasty one. Yum-Yum, what a delectable banana guild. Makes me want to plant another banana...
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Robert Monie
bobm20001
Jun 7, 2003 2:33 pm
Hi Jason, Thanks for the tip on the Kawaguchi bio in Suzuki's book. I have read many of Suzuki's books (including the college genetics text he coauthored with...
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John Warner
daddyoat
Jun 7, 2003 2:54 pm
WHEREAS, the human species is a natural species and all species naturally change and affect their environment, IT CAN THEREFORE BE CONCLUDED that all...
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Michael Vanecek
mikevanecek
Jun 7, 2003 3:08 pm
Then the laws of natural selection would dictate that those who persist in living in their own filth and poisons and consuming all their resources will die of...