The One-Straw Revolution

The One-Straw RevolutionCall 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

each the first of its type in an American museum

but also to help some of my favourite collaborators and buddies to give their songs a little push out into the world

as well as the changing relationships between musicians

innovative drummer De Frank

fanaticism and revolution

and moves on through Sidney

destroying his assumptions about a story he thought he knew intimately

on the ground and in the moment

Whether puncturing the lies of politicians

familiar symbols and pictograms that take on new meanings

his beloved wife is killed in a freak accident

the rise of the Reich