I started natural farming after the war with just one small plot, but gradually I acquired additional acreage by taking over surrounding pieces of abandoned land and caring for them by hand.

I started natural farming after the war with just one small plot, but gradually I acquired additional acreage by taking over surrounding pieces of abandoned land and caring for them by hand.

The simple hearth of the small farm is the true center of our universe.

Weeds play an important part in building soil fertility and in balancing the biological community . . .

The real path to natural farming requires that a person know what unaltered nature is, so that he or she can instinctively understand what needs to be done - and what must not be done - to work in harmony with its processes.

As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.

Of course, I have made mistakes . . . just as every grower does. However, I never really think of them as mistakes!