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\"Fukuokamas\"<\/a>
\nJust over a year after his death, FUKUOKA Masanobu was the main topic of conversation at our Thanksgiving meal table today. Fukuoka was an amazing man who I had the chance to meet at his farm on Shikoku Island back in 1985, when I was living in Japan. His contributions to agriculture, permaculture and profound philosophies undergirding farming, nature and life are innumerable.Here is a video of Fukuoka and helpers making seed balls for permaculture planting.<\/p>\n

You can read a short obituary<\/a> on ‘Permaculture Reflections’ and read below of brother Stephen’s account of how his life was changed.
\n
\nBy Stephen Bartlett<\/em>
\nIt would not be an
\nexaggeration to say that Masanobu Fukuoka’s work, thought and farm had
\na life-changing impact on myself and my family.\u00a0 In 1987, February, my
\nwife Ada and I traveled from China where we were teaching to Japan to
\nvisit my brother, on one condition: that he arrange for us to visit Fukuoka.\u00a0 We had read the One Straw Revolution with fascination.\u00a0 To make a long story short,
\nwe spent about a week in Iyo, mostly alone in the thatched hut, except
\nfor a young Norwegian vegan woman helping Fukuoka
\nwith his pine tree disease research.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 We spent the days from dawn to dusk harvesting oranges with
\nFukuoka’s son, in exchange for food, which we cooked over bamboo in the
\nhut hearth.\u00a0 We didn’t see the Old Man until Sunday when we were
\nresting in the spongy soiled orchard surrounding the
\nhut.\u00a0 Fukuoka came and had a fit, belaboring us verbally, declaring
\nthat we were not serious, not sufficiently committed yet to the task of
\ndefending the earth.\u00a0 He showed us the roots of diseased pine
\nseedlings, saying the earth was being unbalanced, that
\nlife itself could be destroyed by the ambitions and stupidity of
\nhumanity.\u00a0 We were psychologically shocked by his verbal attack, as he
\nstormed off, saying we should come to his own hut once we had finished
\neating our breakfast, rice again, that was cooking
\nover the smokey fire.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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