Making Seed Balls for the Farm | Natural Farming Step 1
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
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Seed balls are a way to let the soil tell you what it can sustain. They are simply balls of red clay, a bunch of seeds from as many different plants as possible, and water. Once dried they can be thrown around different parts of the farm, and the clay will protect the seeds from being eaten by birds.
In this last episode from my trip to Ryunohara in January 2021, I make seed balls for February.
Books mentioned:
The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming (originally published in 1975)
One-Straw Revolutionary: The Philosophy and Work of Masanobu Fukuoka, Larry Korn, 2015
Organic Gardening: The Natural No-Dig Way, Charles Dowding, 2013
Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, James C. Scott, 1998
Intro music: Float - Geographer (RUclips Audio Library)
3 uploads in a week!! yay!
There’ll be loads when I move to Ryunohara full time! Hopefully in April.
Can’t wait to see what will come out eventually.☺️
I'll be seeding the seed balls later this month, and the first plants should be out by April!
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Hi I just had a question about natural farming. If there is no use of compost then what do we do with our food scraps? Do we just Throw it into the yard to break down naturally? Bury it? Can as you please 🙏🏽 explain what I’m meant to do? Thank you 🙏🏽
Fukuoka Masanobu didn’t apply compost to his gardens but if you consume food and then get rid of the scraps in the garden then I think it would count as natural farming still. I throw scraps into the yard and bury larger pieces. Feel free to do either!
i was wondering the same thing but am reading the one-straw revolution now and he said he used the compost for his small vegetable garden.
You can use compost to rejuvenate the land initially. If you want answers look at how forests are sustaining themselves, hopefully you have some around you. Soil is a major digestive system so depending on what you feed it determines its structure. Depending on what you eat it can just be thrown out into grass or bush. Especially if its green or grains husks or something other waste that doesnt lure to many predator animals. Other things can be diced and tossed around. Pay attention without any conclusions in your mind to nature the answers will naturally come.
Want a longer answer. I dont mean to be to abrassive but this is not natural farming your just making off seed balls. But not natural farming Step 1 is to become natural farmer. What is natural farmer. You cannot read how you must experience how. (I can only provide the reminder.)
To experience Or to atune to nature. If you just make seed ball based from assumptions and opnion its just religion. And you have lost fundamental idea. But spirituality is needed it is the
(atunement to nature). To know you must experience the oneness of everything around us. We eat food(earth) breath (air) we house (water) and (Fire,heat) and (space) houses. All of this becomes us so in a way we are just a product of those elements, we are those elements we are the universe our bodies are the result. In most people their experience of life is limited to the body and sometimes the mind. Our minds are a gathering of our experiences,through the sences. But dont you feel there is something else that you are that is more then this body and mind. Pay attetntion to that. And all your questions will be answered.
If an example is needed. Bugs such as cicadas wake up once every 17 years or something this is an example of atunement to nature they know when its time to wake up no alarm, 😂. Another example is the memory of seeds to plant themselves, continuing forests for generations, they are doing this with no help from people even against our human activities that deter this. It knows when to plant itself because its atuned to nature. Much in the same way fukuoka wanted people to find their own way to the truths of nature the, clay balls were "a" method to employ this curtainly an amazing one. But it is just a way for humans do what nature has been doing all along. Just making clay balls to achieve a natural farm. Is not creating a nature farm. Said Fukuoka-san you need nature people only then. (Its hard to put shortly.) To have natural people many realizations must happen and continuous concious effort towards our actions. Realizations such as, how mundane humans are in the cosmic scale of existance. A reminder to readers. If all the worms were gone today life would cease in about 1 year, if all the insects dissapeared 4-6 years,
if all the birds, something like 6-14 years. But if humans dissapear the planet will continue to live it will flourish in facy. This is not to point out the fact we obviously treat this planet poorly. But to show the impact we actually have. We are so mundane compared to the creatures keeping this planet alive.
It doesnt need us. But with what we have caused it throughout history it needs our conciousness to turn it back around. fukuokas efforts were this exactly these seeds balls were his turn around. By 2050 there is estimated to be around 10 billion people if at least a third or more can become atuned to nature or if scientific findings can help people realize the atunements they will naturally have the dire situation our earth is in might possibly be able to turned around this is important if we want human to stay on this planet. This is the foundation of natural farming,the way I see it having been exposed to Fukuoka.
This is a challenge to sustain life on earth, through ecology, nurishment and education. Save soil Lets make it happen.
Hey, how did you go with the seed ball project? waiting to see your results.
Nothing grew! I’m going to make a video about it soon hahahaha
The weeds and grasses here probably suppressed their growth.
@@Ryunohara Did you try growing clovers and alfalfa first will supress weeds. Great food and medicine while you wait🙏
@@Eden894HisBiome Yes the clover, alfalfa, Chinese milkvetch and rapeseed were overwhelmed by other plants, and could not grow.