The Close to Nature Garden
1982
24 min
English
We have been born and are living on the earth to face directly the reality of living.
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Mr. Fukuoka has decided not to plow, not to grow rice in flooded fields, and not to use machinery to sow or harvest. What he does do on his farm is documented in this unique record of a full year of overlapping crops.
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Bullfrog Films, Rodale Press
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Top Cast
Masanobu Fukuoka as Self
Vic Sussman as Self - Host
Tadao Uchida as Japanese Translator (voice)
Top Crew
Marvin Falcon · Composer
Margie Kamine · Editor
Jeff Cox · Executive Producer
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