{"id":502,"date":"2019-02-10T21:07:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T02:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alchemicalnursery.org\/blog\/?p=502"},"modified":"2019-02-10T21:10:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T02:10:32","slug":"ecological-hero-highlight-masanobu-fukuoka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alchemicalnursery.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/ecological-hero-highlight-masanobu-fukuoka\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecological Hero Highlight: Masanobu Fukuoka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fukuoka, a farmer leading landscapes and lifestyles toward smoother paths. Daoism emphasizes the importance of relaxation to let the natural way flow within your mind, speech, actions, and beyond. Fukuoka cultivates peace of people and of places, finding paths of least resistance to move well with the Way.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Masanobu Fukuoka<\/b> (<a title=\"Japanese language\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Japanese_language\">Japanese<\/a>: <span lang=\"ja\">\u798f\u5ca1 \u6b63\u4fe1<\/span> <a title=\"Hepburn romanization\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hepburn_romanization\">Hepburn<\/a>: <i>Fukuoka Masanobu<\/i>, 2 February 1913 \u2013 16 August 2008) was a Japanese farmer and philosopher celebrated for his <a title=\"Natural farming\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Natural_farming\">natural farming<\/a> and re-vegetation of desertified lands. He was a proponent of <a title=\"No-till farming\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/No-till_farming\">no-till<\/a>, no-herbicide <a title=\"Cereal\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cereal\">grain<\/a> cultivation farming methods traditional to many indigenous cultures,<sup id=\"cite_ref-Continuing_ancient_no-till_nature_farming_cultures_1-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Masanobu_Fukuoka#cite_note-Continuing_ancient_no-till_nature_farming_cultures-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup> from which he created a particular method of farming, commonly referred to as &#8220;natural farming&#8221; or &#8220;do-nothing farming&#8221;.<sup id=\"cite_ref-2\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Masanobu_Fukuoka#cite_note-2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-3\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Masanobu_Fukuoka#cite_note-3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-Toyoda_2008-9_Japan_Spotlight_4-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Masanobu_Fukuoka#cite_note-Toyoda_2008-9_Japan_Spotlight-4\">[4]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Fukuoka was the author of several Japanese books, scientific papers and other publications, and was featured in television documentaries and interviews from the 1970s onwards.<sup id=\"cite_ref-NHK_appearance_1976_5-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Masanobu_Fukuoka#cite_note-NHK_appearance_1976-5\">[5]<\/a><\/sup> His influences went beyond farming to inspire individuals within the natural food and lifestyle movements. He was an outspoken advocate of the value of observing nature&#8217;s principles.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Scheewe_2000_Nurturing_the_Soil_6-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Masanobu_Fukuoka#cite_note-Scheewe_2000_Nurturing_the_Soil-6\">[6]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Masanobu_Fukuoka\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Masanobu_Fukuoka<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To learn more about Fukuoka and natural farming methods from him, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.permaculture.com\/node\/140\">www.permaculture.com\/node\/140<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>August 6 is a day to celebrate this person &#8211; perhaps a &#8216;saint&#8217; for the green spiritually inclined &#8211; though acknowledgement, knowledgement, and embodiment any day is the way to The Way!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fukuoka, a farmer leading landscapes and lifestyles toward smoother paths. Daoism emphasizes the importance of relaxation to let the natural way flow within your mind, speech, actions, and beyond. Fukuoka cultivates peace of people and of places, finding paths of least resistance to move well with the Way. Masanobu Fukuoka (Japanese: \u798f\u5ca1 \u6b63\u4fe1 Hepburn: Fukuoka [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecological-hero-highlights"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72shx-86","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alchemicalnursery.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alchemicalnursery.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alchemicalnursery.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alchemicalnursery.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alchemicalnursery.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alchemicalnursery.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504,"href":"https:\/\/alchemicalnursery.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alchemicalnursery.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alchemicalnursery.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alchemicalnursery.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}