Editing Masanobu Fukuoka (section)

==Family farm recent developments==
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[[File:Iyo.jpg|thumb|Fukuoka's farm land in February 2011]]
Fukuoka's farm in Shikoku was taken over by his son and daughter-in-law in the late 1980s, as Fukuoka reached an advanced age.<ref name="Mr-Fukuokas-life-sons-farm-still-thriving-2004">{{in lang|ja}} [http://s-osaka.coop/modules/bulletin/index.php?page=article&storyid=8 Esu Coop Osaka exchange visit to Fukuoka Masanobu's son's family's nature farm] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110916143207/http://s-osaka.coop/modules/bulletin/index.php?page=article&storyid=8 |date=16 September 2011 }} (blog page posted 2004 Dec)</ref> His grandson also took up farming. Many of the farm's [[iyokan]] and [[amanatsu|amanatsu mikan]] trees remain,<ref name="Toyoda 2008-9 Japan Spotlight"/> although some old iyokan were replaced by new varieties of fruit. Woodlands remain along with orchards, including some areas of wild vegetables still growing amongst them. Some areas of straw-mulched cropping continue to produce grains and vegetables. The farm also features an orchard area of [[Ginkgo biloba|ginkgo]] trees, [[shiitake]] mushroom crops growing on tree logs in shady woodland, and plantings of [[Lime (fruit)|lime]]s, [[grapefruit]]s, [[feijoa]]s, [[avocado]]s and [[mango]]es.<ref name="Mr-Fukuokas-life-farming-sons-farm-now-2007">{{in lang|ja}} [http://www.cosmo-oil.co.jp/terre/12/02-03.html Japan's nature model farming for more than 30 years.] TERRE issue No. 12 2007 {{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref name="Mahoroba-blog-Elder-Fukuoka-story">{{in lang|ja}} [http://www.mahoroba-jp.net/about_mahoroba/tayori/oriorino/oriorino200802.htm Elder Mr. Fukuoka meeting again with owner of Mahoroba Natural Foods store] (Japanese only; Retrieved 30 November 2010)</ref>

The farm is now{{When|date=June 2017}} run using some natural farming techniques: no chemicals, no tillage of the land and no use of composting. Other techniques have been changed; the pattern of irrigation is more conventional to reduce conflicts with neighbours. A do-nothing philosophy has been followed on the hilltop surrounding Fukuoka's hut. Here it has become a natural, fruit-bearing forest with minimal intervention.<ref>{{Cite web|title = In-Between – Buddhism and Agriculture II: Hope and Despair on Fukuoka Farm, Iyo|url = http://trentbrown.in.s205663.gridserver.com/buddhism-and-agriculture-ii-hope-and-despair-on-fukuoka-farm-iyo/|website = In-Between|access-date = 10 December 2015|last = Brown|first = Trent|date = 28 November 2015|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151210221323/http://trentbrown.in.s205663.gridserver.com/buddhism-and-agriculture-ii-hope-and-despair-on-fukuoka-farm-iyo/|archive-date = 10 December 2015}}</ref>