"Natural farming is an ecological farming approach established by Masanobu Fukuoka (1913\u20132008), a Japanese farmer and philosopher, introduced in his 1975 book The One-Straw Revolution. Fukuoka described his way of farming as \u81EA\u7136\u8FB2\u6CD5 (shizen n\u014Dh\u014D) in Japanese. It is also referred to as \"the Fukuoka Method\", \"the natural way of farming\" or \"do-nothing farming\". The title refers not to lack of effort, but to the avoidance of manufactured inputs and equipment."@en . . .