BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Boise X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Boise BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2723460:Event:82186 DTSTAMP:20260810T081938Z SUMMARY:Larry Korn and MASANOBU FUKUOKA on Ultimate Food Security DESCRIPTION: \nMasanobu Fukuoka\nIn Masanobu Fukuoka's last major wor k, Sowing Seeds in the Desert, the earth is in great peril due to the corporatization of agriculture, the rising climate crisis, and the eve r-increasing levels of global poverty, starvation, and desertification on a massive scale. This present condition is not \"natural,\" accord ing to the late farmer and philosopher, but a result of humanity's des tructive actions. Our global trauma, however, can be remedied, and may be even reversed, but only when we change our methods of earth steward ship, and the very way we think about the relationship between humans and nature.Fukuoka's inspiring and international best-selling book, Th e One-Straw Revolution (1978), spoke directly to the growing movement of organic farmers and activists seeking a new way of life. For years after its publication, Fukuoka traveled the world spreading his teachi ngs and developing a devoted following of farmers seeking to return to the truth of nature.Sowing Seeds in the Desert, a summation of those years of travel and research, is Fukuoka's last major work, and perhap s his most important. Fukuoka spent years working with people and orga nizations in Africa, India, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the United Sta tes, to show how you could grow food and regenerate forests with very little irrigation in the most desolate places. This revolutionary book presents Fukuoka's plan to rehabilitate the world’s deserts and ach ieve global food security by using natural farming, including practica l solutions for feeding a growing human population and providing a dee p and renewed understanding of the relationship between human beings a nd nature. Fukuoka’s message comes at a time when people around the world seem to have lost their frame of reference, and offers us a way forward.Masanobu Fukuoka (1913–2008) was a farmer and philosopher wh o was born and raised on the Japanese island of Shikoku. He studied pl ant pathology and spent several years working as a customs inspector i n Yokohama. While working there, at the age of twenty-five, he had an inspiration that changed his life. He decided to quit his job, return to his home village, and put his ideas into practice by applying them to agriculture.In 1975 he wrote The One-Straw Revolution, a best-selli ng book that described his life's journey, his philosophy, and farming techniques. This book has been translated into more than twenty-five languages and has helped make Fukuoka a leader in the worldwide sustai nable-agriculture movement. He continued farming until shortly before his death in 2008, at the age of ninety-five.Larry Korn, editor of Sow ing Seeds in the Desert, is an American who lived and worked with Masa nobu Fukuoka on his farm for more than two years in the 1970s. He is t he translator and editor of Fukuoka's first English-language book, The One-Straw Revolution, and accompanied Fukuoka on his visits to the Un ited States in 1979 and 1986. Korn studied Chinese history, soil scien ce, and plant nutrition at the University of California, Berkeley. Kor n currently lives in Ashland, Oregon, giving workshops and classes on natural farming, permaculture, and building resilient, sustainable co mmunities.\nThis event is co-sponsored by Transition Whatcom. \nSee a lso the Inspiration Farm event here.\n\nFor more information visit htt p://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/events/larry-korn-and-masanobu-fukuoka- on-ultimate-food-security DTSTART;TZID=America/Boise:20120814T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Boise:20120814T200000 CATEGORIES:village, books, literature, live LOCATION:Village Books WEBSITE:http://villagebooks.com/village-books-larry-korn-08/14/12 URL:http://villagebooks.com/village-books-larry-korn-08/14/12 CONTACT: ORGANIZER:Village Books ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/ file/get/2270122929?profile=original ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Brian Ke rkvliet":http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/BK ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="David Ma cLeod":http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/DavidMacLeod ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Heather K":http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/HeatherK ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=TENTATIVE;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Bill Be nson":http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/BillBenson END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR