A review by madtraveler
The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka

5.0

Recommended to me by a young man in a mountain tribe of Thailand who united his village to grow coffee and other crops in harmony with each other and the land and seasons. This book is about a fellow working for the Japanese department of agriculture, who leaves, disillusioned by modern ag practices, and experiments with growing methods and rotations that turn out to be just as effective as and far simpler than the industrial/commercial methods. This book is one part agriculture, one part philosophy. Food for the soil and soul. Pair it with The Plowman's Folly and see if it doesn't change how you see farming.