Evaluation: The One-Straw Revolution

Nicole Wojnowski

Professor Melissa Santos

ENG 102-037

9 April 2018

                                                    The One-Straw Revolution: Evaluation

            Over the past few weeks, we have read Masanobu Fukuoka’s non-fiction story, The One-Straw Revolution. After reading this book, I feel that it opened my mind to a different view of the world around us and how things work. This Japanese, translated to English, novel is about a man born in 1913 names Masanobu Fukuoka. He is a Japanese agriculturalist who shares his life story with the readers. He describes how he became a rice farmer and the lessons he learned from it. Between reading and the class discussions, I have come to learn that this man was very connected and dedicated to his agricultural practices. Not in an unnatural way either, all natural, no pesticides or chemicals, just natural ingredients. To support the idea, “…with Sowing Seeds in the Desert, Fukuoka-sensei’s teaching of natural farming continues to grow, sending deep roots down into the terrain of global restoration and food security for a hungry world.” (Frederick Kirschenmann)

Fukuoka ties in his classic cultural ways with telling the importance of the connection of natural farming because it not only effects the health of the consumer but it also effects the taste of the food. “You do not try to make food delicious, you will find that nature has made it so.” (Fukuoka 137) This means that you don’t have to do anything to food to make it yummy, it is already delectable the way it is, how mother nature created it. I would recommend this book to others, as I said before, he gives you the perspective of his point of view and also gives the reader things to think about such as if our agricultural system was different. Different views are brought into the story.

Sources Cited

“Editorial Reviews.” The One-Straw Revolution, www.onestrawrevolution.net/One_Straw_Revolution/Reviews.html.

M., Fukuoka. The One-Straw Revolution. 1978