No-dig gardening is a non-cultivation method used by some organic gardeners.
A no-dig garden in Dunedin, New Zealand.
Natural farming, also referred to as "the Fukuoka Method", "the natural way of farming", or "do-nothing farming", is an ecological farming approach established by Masanobu Fukuoka. Fukuoka, a Japanese
No-dig gardening
…techniques. Masanobu Fukuoka started his pioneering research work in this domain in 1938, and began publishing in the 1970s his Fukuokan philosophy of "do-nothing farming" or natural farming, which is now acknowledged by some as the tap root of the permaculture movement. Two pioneers of the method in the twentieth century…
Masanobu Fukuoka, originator of the natural farming method
A young man helps harvest rice by hand at a natural farm, in this production still from the film "Final Straw: Food, Earth, Happiness"
Yoshikazu Kawaguchi at Akame Natural Farm School
Ladybirds consume aphids and are considered beneficial by natural farmers that apply biological control.