there are four principles of natural farming as stated by fukuoka: no cultivation no chemical fertilizer or prepared compost no weeding by tillage or...
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Chris Sawyer
css@...
Oct 30, 2001 11:03 am
I think that red clover, if my resources are correct will produce the most nutrients. It also has a root that can penetrate up to 8 feet. One must inoculate...
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Castillo Gallery
castilloga@...
Oct 30, 2001 5:00 pm
thanks to all who have responded to my email...this concept of group emailing reflects the paradigm of multi-functioning tasks that is so often referred to by...
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Larry Haftl
larry@...
Oct 31, 2001 12:38 am
Hello again Terry, I had the same problem trying to get a copy of Fukuoka's books. Finally solved the problem by going to the local public library with a...
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Larry Haftl
larry@...
Oct 31, 2001 12:50 am
Hello Chris, I looked at several ground covers/green mulches and you are right, red clover does fix a bit more nitrogen into the soil than white clover....
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Castillo Gallery
castilloga@...
Oct 31, 2001 12:59 am
chas: "it's simple but not easy" an inspiring quote terry...
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flylo@...
flylo_2000
Oct 31, 2001 2:14 am
Terry One thing you may not have realized that by plowing, the soil is opened and turned enough so that weed seeds lying dormant (for 30+ years and more)...
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chas baudelaire
pan43thefirst
Oct 31, 2001 6:49 pm
on 10/31/01 10:19 AM, fukuoka_farming@yahoogroups.com at ... terry thanks, and credit has to go to my treatment advisor / instructor / teacher / mentor alice....
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Castillo Gallery
castilloga@...
Oct 31, 2001 11:31 pm
chas you are right...i have lived and watched and watered this piece for 12 years...i have seen chinese elms try to sneak in from the north and cottonwoods...
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carole.hourt@...
claris752000
Nov 4, 2001 9:07 am
Hello, I am Carole, a new (French) member of this group. I'm ecstatic to know that so many people around the world use the natural way of farming ! I got...
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Bargyla Rateaver
brateaver@...
Nov 4, 2001 12:56 pm
Dear Rex Teague, at last at last I get somewhere. This must be what I was hunting for and could not find. Is there anywhere else I can get more of rhis...
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Antje Cobbett
crysolite
Nov 5, 2001 6:49 am
Dear Carole, Welcome to the group! I also had read his books years ago and thought I couldn't start because I didn't have much land. Now I live in England and ...
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Rex Teague
dibblegardens
Nov 5, 2001 8:12 pm
Hello Bargyla et al ... No I haven't seen any Rife microscope fragments but I share your curiosity about Rife's innovations. It is many years since I dropped...
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Karri Varpio
karri.varpio@...
Nov 6, 2001 7:18 pm
Hi, Does anybody have experience about making seedballs from grain seeds? A suitable equipment for making seedballs for several hectares? Is compost necessary...
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Castillo Gallery
castilloga@...
Nov 6, 2001 7:54 pm
try www.seedballs.com it seems highly recommended to use compost in seedballs...there's a recipe at the website along with other good stuff terry ... From:...
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Bargyla Rateaver
brateaver@...
Nov 7, 2001 3:30 am
Thank you so very much, Rex Teague. I am so pleased to see you here, have wanted for a long time to find you. Hope you don't disappear. Years ago I was...
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roberto
guy10@...
Nov 8, 2001 11:32 pm
SEED BALLS IN NEW ZEALAND The use of seed balls as a method of recreating native habitat in New Zealand is both innovative and exciting. Here in Southland,...
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martinremmel@...
martinremmel
Nov 11, 2001 4:40 am
Shortly after his wife died M. Fukuoka traveled to China and had talks with the ministry of forestry trying to convince them to try his method on a big scale...
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Carol
reggiecs@...
Nov 11, 2001 1:05 pm
Martin Remmel said, in part.. ... I would agree if what you don't want people to do is blend ideas and then call the result Fukuoka. But I see no problem with...
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Stephen Inniss
matterplay1
Nov 11, 2001 6:47 pm
Hello, I have been "listening" to this group for a few weeks. My only other source so far concerning Mr. Fukuoka's ideas has been a copy of One Straw...
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souscayrous
Nov 12, 2001 5:05 pm
Thank you Martin for returning this slow dialogue to the work of Fukuoka. I find it necessary to read and re-read the books (One Straw Revolution and The...
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nipponbound@...
nipponbound
Nov 15, 2001 9:14 pm
Reading the "One Straw Revolution" and "The Way of Natural Farming", I found that the methods similar to my ancestors' were being successfully utilized by...
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burt levy
redbudburt
Nov 16, 2001 7:00 am
from redbudburt to Karri Varpio. I would cut the weeds down several times, then make seedballs with a mix of red clover and white clover. Also mix in the...
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burt levy
redbudburt
Nov 16, 2001 7:13 am
from redbudburt, On the jim bones light writings web page there are interviews and information on Fukuoka san. On some of them there are addresses for getting...
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randy kenny
basker88
Nov 26, 2001 7:08 pm
Hey there everybody. I am looking for affordable copies of Fukuoka books. They are hard to find in Toronto or very expensive. If you have a copy you want to...
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b.gilboa
b.gilboa@...
Nov 27, 2001 8:20 am
You could get the french version asking to kokopelli association at: kokopelli.assoc@... bdg ... you...
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Heartaxe@...
heartaxe
Nov 29, 2001 3:22 pm
Greetings everybody, it's been many years I've finished reading all of masanobu's books and now after having become disgusted by my modern surrounding, Time ...
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Castillo Gallery
castilloga@...
Nov 29, 2001 8:57 pm
heartaxe check out www.seedballs.com a good interview with fukuoka and maybe contact info...i'm not sure tm...
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Heartaxe@...
heartaxe
Nov 30, 2001 12:04 am
... First, thanks for your answer guy. But I've knew this site already and I've read this interview before, there is no direct info on masanobu's farm, and the...
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marinacity@...
marinacity
Dec 1, 2001 12:06 pm
Hello everyone, I am looking for people to join me in trying the fukuoka method on a large scale.What I mean is that a group of atleast 10 people should join...
