Farmers of Forty CenturiesReader submitted

I must read Farmers of Forty Centuries again. Revolutionaries are interesting and inspiring in matters green but how deep is their experience? John Seymour, Rodale et al gave us the benefit of their thoughts and experiments in natural living and growing. Their lives cover the past 50 years at best. There was no living history. FH King went to Asia, the fountainhead of organic living in 1909 before the acceptance of the engine and synthetic nitrogen fertiliser. He saw and recorded a culture that had been successfully perpetuated for 4000 years, a more stable life-support system than any other since the introduction of agriculture 6000 years earlier. His book is available again. Google it if you value tradition.

PS. If human waste is a problem, see sunnyjohn.com for a non-composting solution probably well known to the ancients.