--- product_id: 1563879 title: "The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming (New York Review Books Classics)" price: "18258CFA" currency: XOF in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.sn/products/1563879-the-one-straw-revolution-an-introduction-to-natural-farming-new store_origin: SN region: Senegal --- # The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming (New York Review Books Classics) **Price:** 18258CFA **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming (New York Review Books Classics) - **How much does it cost?** 18258CFA with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sn](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/1563879-the-one-straw-revolution-an-introduction-to-natural-farming-new) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Call it “Zen and the Art of Farming” or a “Little Green Book,” Masanobu Fukuoka’s manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative system of cultivating the earth reflects a deep faith in the wholeness and balance of the natural world. As Wendell Berry writes in his preface, the book “is valuable to us because it is at once practical and philosophical. It is an inspiring, necessary book about agriculture because it is not just about agriculture.” Trained as a scientist, Fukuoka rejected both modern agribusiness and centuries of agricultural practice, deciding instead that the best forms of cultivation mirror nature’s own laws. Over the next three decades he perfected his so-called “do-nothing” technique: commonsense, sustainable practices that all but eliminate the use of pesticides, fertilizer, tillage, and perhaps most significantly, wasteful effort. Whether you’re a guerrilla gardener or a kitchen gardener, dedicated to slow food or simply looking to live a healthier life, you will find something here—you may even be moved to start a revolution of your own. Review: Growing w/o chemicals, using a natural way makes growing easier cheaper & more nutritional. GENIUS! - This is an awesome book for numerous reasons, waayyy too many to count. The original author is perhaps a genius who was way ahead of his time. It is very interesting to learn that you can 'farm" without a ton of Chemical fertilizers, sustain a family of 5 on about 1.25 acre plot, do not need a rice Paddy for growing rice and can grow it in a "dry field", typically "green manure" and some animal &/or human manure (yes, human) are enough to replenish the nutrients in a field or growing plot (if I understood that part correctly), vegetables grown without chemical fertilizer in a "natural setting" taste much better and have more nutrients for your body, when sowing seeds you can do so "randomly" instead of in rows and can/will get better results, daikon radish and other vegetables can/will resow themselves year after year if done so properly (how?? read this book), it is actually cheaper to grow organic vegetables, however, consumers typically think a lower price means lower quality and vice versa, I could go on and on but I'm f Done writing this. If you enjoy farming or growing vegetables then this book will not disappoint you, especially if you would prefer to grow them more naturally and healthier for you and your family, plus easier too!. The author of this book makes many good points about farming, growing vegetable sustainably, and how to do so much easier than the typical farmer/person does these days. You ask Who should you blame this on? The chemical companies, of course. The "big pharma" of the farmer. He said in the past Farmers in Japan would typically take off 3 months during the winter time to go hunting animals/game for food because they had the time to do so and it was enjoyable. As chemicals became more prevalent in the farming process the farmers work actually got harder and took more time. Sounds crazy to me but I 100% believe it. I can't say enough good things about this book I wish the author were still alive and I was able to meet him. After reading this book I am now even more interested in a "living off the grid lifestyle" & growing food sustainably for myself, without all the backbreaking work I thought was involved with farming. This 'new method' of farming the author describes is actually a very very old method & by not using chemicals & using a more natural approach to farming, it will actually make things easier for you the farmer/grower, plus make the food you grow taste better and be better ( nutritionally) for you. Review: Great gardening info - Since I don't want to get cancer from my own garden, I have been researching ways to make the vegetables grow without poisoning them/us. Excellent book here. I started experimenting with cover crops, then grew things amidst the native plants that were already in the field. When I have success with a certain crop, say red beans, I know they work well with my cover crop (red clover for the honey bees). I no longer have to water the garden -- watering it just attracts things that prey on my vegetables, so it never made any sense, but the stuff can't get dry... Then I planted native edibles like plantain, chicory, and dandelions. They bring in pollinators, too. We had a great crop of beans, bitter melon, mints, lavender, and sweet potatoes, along with tons of dandelion salad. And, almost NO WEEDS. The soil looks healthier, too. I'll put the leaves from the parking area on the garden later. A spring tip: Plant garlic and bitter greens of some type (healthy) first. The animals will sample it and become disgusted. Start bitter melon indoors, add that next. The deer hate it -- they nibbled the tips, only one time, hehe. Fry the bitter melon with pork/meat/ghee. The American translator added a note that said you can't do this in the US...that makes no sense, I implemented it just fine. I doubt that gardens in Maryland and New York are different from the rest of the country. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #39,398 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #8 in Sustainable Agriculture (Books) #18 in Organic & Sustainable Gardening & Horticulture #31 in Ecology (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 2,002 Reviews | ## Images ![The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming (New York Review Books Classics) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/7184i7kpH4L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Growing w/o chemicals, using a natural way makes growing easier cheaper & more nutritional. GENIUS! *by J***G on August 25, 2021* This is an awesome book for numerous reasons, waayyy too many to count. The original author is perhaps a genius who was way ahead of his time. It is very interesting to learn that you can 'farm" without a ton of Chemical fertilizers, sustain a family of 5 on about 1.25 acre plot, do not need a rice Paddy for growing rice and can grow it in a "dry field", typically "green manure" and some animal &/or human manure (yes, human) are enough to replenish the nutrients in a field or growing plot (if I understood that part correctly), vegetables grown without chemical fertilizer in a "natural setting" taste much better and have more nutrients for your body, when sowing seeds you can do so "randomly" instead of in rows and can/will get better results, daikon radish and other vegetables can/will resow themselves year after year if done so properly (how?? read this book), it is actually cheaper to grow organic vegetables, however, consumers typically think a lower price means lower quality and vice versa, I could go on and on but I'm f Done writing this. If you enjoy farming or growing vegetables then this book will not disappoint you, especially if you would prefer to grow them more naturally and healthier for you and your family, plus easier too!. The author of this book makes many good points about farming, growing vegetable sustainably, and how to do so much easier than the typical farmer/person does these days. You ask Who should you blame this on? The chemical companies, of course. The "big pharma" of the farmer. He said in the past Farmers in Japan would typically take off 3 months during the winter time to go hunting animals/game for food because they had the time to do so and it was enjoyable. As chemicals became more prevalent in the farming process the farmers work actually got harder and took more time. Sounds crazy to me but I 100% believe it. I can't say enough good things about this book I wish the author were still alive and I was able to meet him. After reading this book I am now even more interested in a "living off the grid lifestyle" & growing food sustainably for myself, without all the backbreaking work I thought was involved with farming. This 'new method' of farming the author describes is actually a very very old method & by not using chemicals & using a more natural approach to farming, it will actually make things easier for you the farmer/grower, plus make the food you grow taste better and be better ( nutritionally) for you. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great gardening info *by J***Y on August 29, 2021* Since I don't want to get cancer from my own garden, I have been researching ways to make the vegetables grow without poisoning them/us. Excellent book here. I started experimenting with cover crops, then grew things amidst the native plants that were already in the field. When I have success with a certain crop, say red beans, I know they work well with my cover crop (red clover for the honey bees). I no longer have to water the garden -- watering it just attracts things that prey on my vegetables, so it never made any sense, but the stuff can't get dry... Then I planted native edibles like plantain, chicory, and dandelions. They bring in pollinators, too. We had a great crop of beans, bitter melon, mints, lavender, and sweet potatoes, along with tons of dandelion salad. And, almost NO WEEDS. The soil looks healthier, too. I'll put the leaves from the parking area on the garden later. A spring tip: Plant garlic and bitter greens of some type (healthy) first. The animals will sample it and become disgusted. Start bitter melon indoors, add that next. The deer hate it -- they nibbled the tips, only one time, hehe. Fry the bitter melon with pork/meat/ghee. The American translator added a note that said you can't do this in the US...that makes no sense, I implemented it just fine. I doubt that gardens in Maryland and New York are different from the rest of the country. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ One stalk at a time! *by M***N on April 25, 2012* I believe this to be a very fresh, earth-centered yet spiritual book which is ultimately not a how-to book, which those who have unfavorably reviewed it expected it to be, nor is it wholly a philosophical treatise. What it is, is thoroughly interesting! One would think it had just been written, which does have something to say for the philosophical nature of the text, rather than something written close to 40 years ago. You may disagree with Fukuoka's philosophy, but his results seem to speak for themselves. If what he "returned" to doing by mimicking nature were not successful, then much of the book would be kabuki dramatics, titillating Western audiences yet without much more substance. He speaks of the individual experience branching out to the universal. Most everyone will not be farming rice, yet even in the rice producing parts of the world his practice would be quite dynamic, let alone taking the principle and applying in to your own local environs. This is a fantastic book, which is imbued with philosophy without the weight of formal philosophy. If I were to sum up the text, I think it best to be called a meditation on sustenance, and a beautiful one at that. ## Frequently Bought Together - The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming (New York Review Books Classics) - Natural Way of Farming: The Theory and Practice of Green Philosophy - Sowing Seeds in the Desert: Natural Farming, Global Restoration, and Ultimate Food Security --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.sn/products/1563879-the-one-straw-revolution-an-introduction-to-natural-farming-new](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/1563879-the-one-straw-revolution-an-introduction-to-natural-farming-new) --- *Product available on Desertcart Senegal* *Store origin: SN* *Last updated: 2026-07-14*