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:104607 DTSTAMP:20260808T222124Z SUMMARY:Larry Korn: One Straw Revolutionary: The Philosophy and Work o f Masanobu Fukuoka DESCRIPTION:One-Straw Revolutionary represents the first commentary on the work of the late Japanese farmer and philosopher Masanobu Fukuoka (1913 2008), widely considered to be natural farming's most influenti al practitioner. Mr. Fukuoka is perhaps most known for his bestselling book The One-Straw Revolution (1978), a manifesto on the importance o f no-till agriculture, which was at the time of publication a radical challenge to the global systems that supply the world's food, and stil l inspires readers today. Larry Korn, who apprenticed with Mr. Fukuoka in Japan at the time, translated the manuscript and brought it to the United States, knowing it would change the conversation about food fo rever. The One-Straw Revolution, edited by Korn and Wendell Berry, was an immediate international success, and established Mr. Fukuoka as a leading voice in the fight against conventional industrial agriculture . In this new book, through his own personal narrative, Larry Korn dis tills his experience of more than thirty-five years of study with Mr. Fukuoka, living and working on his farm on Shikoku Island, and traveli ng with Mr. Fukuoka to the United States on two six-week visits.\nOne- Straw Revolutionary is the first book to look deeply at natural farmin g and intimately discuss the philosophy and work of Mr. Fukuoka. In ad dition to giving his personal thoughts about natural farming, Korn bro adens the discussion by pointing out natural farming's kinship with th e ways of indigenous cultures and traditional Japanese farming. At the same time, he clearly distinguishes natural farming from other forms of agriculture, including scientific and organic agriculture and perma culture. Korn also clarifies commonly held misconceptions about natura l farming in ways Western readers can readily understand. And he expla ins how natural farming can be used practically in areas other than ag riculture, including personal growth and development.\nThe book follow s the author on his travels from one back-to-the-land commune to anoth er in the countryside of 1970s Japan, a journey that eventually led hi m to Mr. Fukuoka's natural farm. Korn's description of his time there, as well as traveling with Mr. Fukuoka during his visits to the United States, offers a rare, inside look at Mr. Fukuoka's life. Readers wil l delight in this personal insight into one of the world's leading agr icultural thinkers.\nVillage Books Literature Live, co-sponsored by Tr ansition Whatcom\n\nFor more information visit http://transitionwhatco m.ning.com/events/larry-korn-one-straw-revolutionary-the-philosophy-an d-work-of-mas DTSTART;TZID=America/Boise:20160405T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Boise:20160405T200000 CATEGORIES:literature, live LOCATION:Village Books WEBSITE:http://www.villagebooks.com/book/9781603585309 URL:http://www.villagebooks.com/book/9781603585309 CONTACT: ORGANIZER;CN="David MacLeod":http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile /DavidMacLeod ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/ file/get/2270132858?profile=original 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=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Brian Ke rkvliet":http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/BK END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR