Natural Farming

Natural farming, referred to as the "Fukuoka method", "natural way of farming" or "farming without doing anything", is an environmental farming founded by Masanobu Fukuoka (1913–2008). Fukuoka, a Japanese farmer and philosopher, coined the term in 1975 in his book, The Straw Revolution. The title is not a lack of effort but a avoidance of manufactured input and equipment. Natural farming is related to reproductive farming, organic farming, sustainable farming, agricultural science, agronomy, eco-culture and permaculture, but it should be different from biodynamic farming.
This arrangement works with the natural biodiversity of each farm, encouraging the complexity of both organisms and plants that shape each particular ecosystem to grow with food plants. Fukuoka saw food as a means to an end and an aesthetic or spiritual approach to life. The ultimate goal is "the cultivation and perfection of man." He said that a closer look at the local conditions could benefit the farmers. Natural farming is a closed system, which does not require human-supplied inputs and imitations of nature.
Fukuoka's ideas are fundamentally challenged by the basic conventions of modern agro-industry; Instead of encouraging the import of nutrients and chemicals, he suggested an approach to take advantage of the local environment. Although natural farming is considered a subset of organic farming, it is very different from traditional organic farming, which is considered to be another modern technique that plagues Fukuoka. Nature.
Fukuoka claims that his approach prevents water pollution, loss of biodiversity and soil erosion, and provides plenty of food.
Under natural farming, farmers only use manure and other things made by them during farming. There is no need to use any kind of chemical fertilizers and pesticides in natural farming. Under natural farming, farmers only use manure and other things made by them during farming. In natural farming, there is no need to use any kind of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
Principles of natural farming
Various courses, free schools and community education farms exist around the world where practical experience of natural farming can be found. However, there is no set “natural farming technique” that applies to every individual or every place. However, there are some “theories” that we like the tendency to exist and teach us something on the way to farming.
- No need to be grounded
- Bugs and weeds are not enemies
- Your farm does not require any external tools
- Let nature decide what grows
Many practitioners have articulated the principles of natural farming in different ways over the years, but the above four principles represent the most common recurring patterns of natural farming around the world.
These principles apply almost everywhere you try in natural farming. Well it must be remembered that they are not the official set of natural farming rules! Indeed, there can be no such thing if natural farming is real.
Relation to land
Although the concept is linked to numerous traditions of wisdom, as well as to some of today's advanced biological and physical scientific theories, it is difficult for most Western students to understand the exact meaning of the phrase "connection to nature." Books, theories and philosophies can sometimes go in a general direction, though sometimes useful. Ultimately, it depends on each person going into nature and starting to learn by experience. If you can't build a relationship with another human being by reading a book about them, then that's the way to connect with nature!
From this perspective, natural agriculture is not just a way to grow food but a way to regenerate our own health, the health of society and the health of the environment around us, to find a way to carry out every aspect of human life on earth. .
And this is why personal farming makes a personal, creative and enthusiastic effort for us. Working with this offer every day with this mindset, an opportunity to enhance your relationship with this earth, an opportunity to develop your own unique voice, your skills, your craft as a human being and learn more about your role in this miraculous earth.
From this perspective, the only realistic way for humanity to move forward, in which we can ensure environmental well-being and support the well-being of the human population, is to engage in food production - and to create anything in that direction. Which inherently reconnects humans to the environment. x
Ultimately, trying to see and do things as farmers, consumers, and nature gives us ways to live happier, more peacefully, and more eternally, regardless of what we choose to live.
Benefits of natural farming
Farmers who do farming through natural farming techniques do not have to buy any kind of chemical and pesticide elements, and in this technique, farmers use only the things made by them instead of chemicals. Because of which it incurs low cost while doing this type of farming.