Schvonche

My blogs

Gender	Female
Industry	Non-Profit
Location	Chicago, IL, United States
Introduction	The title of this blog is inspired by the work of Masanobu Fukuoka, author of The One Straw Revolution. Fukuoka practiced what he described as "no-plowing, no-fertilizing, no-weeding, no-pesticides, do-nothing method of natural farming." Fukuoka recognized that it is nature, not humans that grows crops. This mentality is a far cry from today's technology-based agriculture, which values scientists in laboratories over farmers in fields, pesticides from a bottle over soil-enriching micro-organisms, and GMOs over ancient seeds that know the land better than any human. Current agricultural practices are causing a rapid decrease in planetary biodiversity and contributing heavily to global warming, calling now for a One Seed Revolution that preserves native seeds and the key they hold to global food security.