Making Seed Balls for the Farm | Natural Farming Step 1

#naturalfarming #seedballs

Seed balls are a way to let the soil tell you what it can sustain. They are simply balls of red clay, a bunch of seeds from as many different plants as possible, and water. Once dried they can be thrown around different parts of the farm, and the clay will protect the seeds from being eaten by birds.

In this last episode from my trip to Ryunohara in January 2021, I make seed balls for February.

Books mentioned:
The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming (originally published in 1975)
One-Straw Revolutionary: The Philosophy and Work of Masanobu Fukuoka, Larry Korn, 2015
Organic Gardening: The Natural No-Dig Way, Charles Dowding, 2013
Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, James C. Scott, 1998

Intro music: Float - Geographer (Youtube Audio Library)