Wild plant foraging journey's # 55 Plantago major - rats tail or greater plantain.. The Home Orchard Part 1. Agriculture field(green land) Agriculture. Agriculture part 2. Growing a Wild Garden. The following is adapted and extracted from the book – The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka (1978).
Upon investigatiion, my garden seemed to have just as many insects as in the surrounding fields, which had been sprayed countless times with a variety of deadly chemicals. But the populations of harmful insects were a lot less in my garden, and beneficial (predatory) insects were present in far higher numbers. I realized that my garden was being maintained in this state by means of a natural balance established among the various insect communities. If my methods were generally adopted, the problem of crop devastation by leafhoppers could be solved. Four Principles: