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- Title
Pruning the Past, Shaping the Future: David Mas Masumoto and Organic Nothingness.
- Authors
Shiuh-huah Serena Chou
- Abstract
This essay discusses the work of organic peach farmer and author David Mas Masumoto, who combines his farming techniques with Zen Buddhist principles. Masumoto discusses his choice to become an organic farmer in the book "Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm" and describes how he does it. Soil scientist Masanobu Fukuoka was also a proponent of organic farming.
- Subjects
MASUMOTO, David Mas; ORGANIC farmers; JAPANESE American authors; PEACH growers; EPITAPH for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm, The (Book); FUKUOKA, Masanobu
- Publication
MELUS, 2009, Vol 34, Issue 2, p157
- ISSN
0163-755X
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/mel.0.0028