Y'all don't forget the CONTESTS built into this series. One SBI for a name, five for the needle! That makes thirty one shares for the series if someone claims the prize before the post pays out.

Congrats, Hive account@senstless for finding the needle on the Rhubarb card!

On to today's featured permaculture tidbit!

Masanobu Fukuoka, a permie profile

Wow, what a resume!

"The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings."

Very Japanese, and very in line with Hippocrates when he said "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food."

From his Wikipedia page, here are his five principles of natural farming:

human cultivation of soil, plowing or tilling are unnecessary, as is the use of powered machines
prepared fertilizers are unnecessary, as is the process of preparing compost
weeding, either by cultivation or by herbicides, is unnecessary; instead, only minimal weed suppression with minimal disturbance should be used
applications of pesticides or herbicides are unnecessary
pruning of fruit trees is unnecessary

I'm gonna have to look into this fella. We just made our third giant compost pile last weekend, and then along comes this guy telling me compost is unnecessary?

I imagine his basis for these five principles is that the microorganisms in the soil will do it for you naturally, and that all these things happen naturally without us, so there's no need for us to do them. Very permaculture. I dig it.

Just like the quote from Paul Wheaton (follow him on steem Hive account@paulwheaton) at the top of every one of these posts: "permaculture is a more symbiotic relationship with nature, so I can be even lazier."