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How To "One-Straw" Revolutionize Your Pasture: Adapting Masanobu Fukuoka's Natural Farming Methods for Permaculture Pasture
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Masanobu Fukuoka's natural farming employs non-mechanical, non-chemical, low input methods that he developed for his grain fields and orchards. This book explains how the author adapted natural farming to build and maintain sustainable permaculture pasture. The methods described are particularly well-suited for small acreage, however, the principles are applicable to larger areas as needed.
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Leigh Tate
Leigh Tate has always loved living close to the land. From the back-to-the-land movement to the modern homesteading movement, the agrarian lifestyle is the one she says feels like home. She and her husband currently homestead five acres in the foothills of the Southern Appalachians. Their vision is to become as self-sustaining as possible by stewarding their land, animals, and resources. Leigh's homesteading activities include gardening, food preservation, foraging, raising goats, chickens, and guinea fowl, herbs, cheese making, permaculture landscaping, spinning, weaving, knitting, sewing, quilting, natural dying, soapmaking, wood cookstove cookery, and renovating their old 1920s farmhouse.
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How To "One-Straw" Revolutionize Your Pasture - Leigh Tate
The Little Series of Homestead How-Tos
from 5 Acres & A Dream
How To One-Straw
Revolutionize Your Pasture
Adapting Masanobu Fukuoka's Natural Farming Methods for Permaculture Pasture
by Leigh Tate
Kikobian Books
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Text & photos © 2014-2021 by Leigh Tate.
All rights reserved. This eBook is licensed for your personal use only. It may not be re-sold or given away. Purchaser is granted permission to make one print copy for their personal preparedness files. Otherwise, except for brief quotations in reviews, no portion of this book may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form without the written permission of the author. For more information, contact Kikobian Books at info@kikobian.com.
Published May 19, 2021
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Who Was Masanobu Fukuoka?
What Is Natural Farming?
What Is The One-Straw Revolution
?
What Is Permaculture Pasture?
One-Straw Inspiration
The Deep Litter Bedding Method
The Roles of Carbon and Soil Biology
The 5 Principles of Soil Health
Seed Diversity for Forage Diversity
A Modified Fukuoka Approach for Sustainable Pasture
Seed Pellets, Balls, and Bombs
Full Disclosure: How Well Does It Work?
Conclusion: No Waste Closed-Loop System
Glossary
Resources
Bibliography
About The Author
Preface
When I published 5 Acres & A Dream The Book: The Challenges of Establishing a Self-Sufficient Homestead, I described it as neither a how-to nor a why-to book. Although it contains quite a bit of practical advice about many homesteading skills, it is mostly the story of our journey toward simpler, sustainable, more self-reliant living. The Little Series of Homestead How-Tos is a complement to that book. It is a work in progress which will eventually include all of the skills mentioned in 5 Acres & A Dream The Book, 5 Acres & A Dream The Sequel, and Critter Tales, plus other how-tos as well. I hope
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