Fukuoka in Greece (1/3)

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Follow Japanese legend Masanobu Fukuoka on his 1998 visit to Arnissa in Greece, where he inspires locals young and old in an effort to sow seedballs across 10,000 hectares of rocky Grecian countryside.
Masanobu Fukuoka, who died in 2008 aged 95, is the author of 'The One Straw Revolution', 'The Road back to Nature', and 'The Natural Way of Farming'. He was a pioneer of no-till cultivation, and his Natural Farming system is often referred to as The Fukuoka Method. From the age of 25 he devoted his life to this organic method, which does not require weeding, pesticide or fertiliser. The essence of Fukuoka's method is to reproduce natural conditions as closely as possible, maintaining great emphasis on diversity. Fukuoka re-introduced the ancient technique of 'seed balls', in which a variety of companion plant seeds are mixed together with clay and compost, resulting in a dense crop of smaller but highly productive strong plants.

To find out more about the continuing natural farming work of Panayotis Manikis in Greece please visit : http://www.naturalfarming.eu

"if modern agriculture continues to follow the path it's on now, it's finished. The food-growing situation may seem to be in good shape today, but that's just an illusion based on the current availability of petroleum fuels. All the wheat, corn, and other crops that are produced on big farms may be alive and growing, but they're not products of real nature or real agriculture. They're manufactured rather than grown. The Earth isn't producing those things... petroleum is!"
Masanobu Fukuoka, Mother Earth News interview, 1982

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• fukuoka
• permaculture
• seed balls
• greece
• japan

[tessaring]

I didn't get quite, how they actually form the pellets - by hand or in the concrete mixer?

[vidaripollen]

no Noble peace prize for him?

[EKOSMUNiDAD]

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[otacon451]

their website says they've only turned 2.5ha into a food forest? that should tell you something..

[morningmayan]

WOW thank you!!!!!!!!!!

[TheNaturalfarmer]

ok so i still dont know how to post correctly. Great job thank you so much for uploading this vides!

[ThanksgivingWalk]

Another good Fukuoka film.

Thank you.

[thelineofmypeople]

YODA the wise one!

[yashamill]

Thanks for posting this material with Mr.Fukuoka.

He is a legend and an inspiration.

5*****, fav'ed,