Like Ruth Stout or Paul Gautschi, the idea of natural farming came to him in a flash of insight. In his case after a bought of pneumonia that almost killed him. He realized that agriculture was about not doing and he began experimenting with natural methods of planting and farming.
In an earlier post I wondered if these insights are really a side effect of brain duality and the actual weakness of our language/symbolic thinking.
The symbolic brain is deluded into thinking that our labor causes the plants to grow from soil that's been tilled into a simple geometric shape. It deletes the role of the soil and the unseen bacteria and fungi and the plants themselves.
Anyway, search YouTube for videos on him. He's an interesting guy. It's also interesting to compare and contrast him and the other permaculture, no till advocates.
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