Matt S. reviewed on 9/14/2011

Ironic that this is classified as as agriculture science.

Overall, I liked the book. However, this book is full of contradictions: don't till the soil, lightly till soil; start from seed, transplant trees and weak vegetables; no seed is weak as to require transplanting, start some veggies in containers; don't use pesticides, use some home-made pesticides; don't prune trees, prune trees to their natural shape. The main lesson that I gathered from all the contradictions was that farming Fukuoka's way is a philosophy and a method that is not mastered, and that humans probably will never master.

I got answers to a lot of the questions I had about how to start being a natural farmer.

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