the earth but of our fear-clutched psyches as well. —FRANCES MOORE LAPPÉ Preface Readers who expect this to be a book only about farming will be surprised to find that it is also a book about diet, about health, about cultural values, about the limits of human knowledge. Others, led to it by hearsay of its philosophy, will be surprised to find it full of practical knowhow about growing rice and winter grain, citrus fruit, and garden vegetables on a Japanese farm. It is exactly because of such habitual expectations—because we have learned to expect people to be specialists and books to have
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