The World’s Most Ecological Straw
The original straw is grown directly by nature, ready to use in final ‘straw’ form. This straw comes from the stems of grass plants like wheat, rice, reeds, and others.
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Year in Review & a Look at 2020
Environmental workshops, exhibitions, community gardens, green streets, and our first eco arts festival. What will 2020 bring?
Parts of a Whole: Building a Nature Mandala
It’s difficult to see in practice, how our individual voice makes up one part of a beautiful whole. The nature mandala workshop helps us experience this…
Glimmers of Light at The Centre for Stewardship
What does it mean to be a steward of the land? Find out in this story about our latest workshop and screening event in Fife, Scotland…
What Would Happen if We all Grew Food?
How many people could all the empty yards in a suburban block feed if they were put to use growing food?
Solving Soil Loss is Simple, But Requires a Mindset Change
Feeding the world by changing how we think about food and human nourishment…
Korea’s EDU Farm Conference
Film excerpts and talk about the Final Straw to a great group of people in Korea…
![Mr. Matsuzawa lectures at the [HUMAN:NATURE] symposium in Megijima, Japan.](https://finalstraw.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/megi-house-human-nature-lecture-matsuzawa-597x325.jpg)
[HUMAN:NATURE] Symposium in Japan
The past few months have been full of art, farming, community, and finding new appreciation of nature…
Seoul – Final Straw Farmer Lecture Event Recap
Suhee and I produced a lecture in Seoul this month, partly to raise awareness for The Final Straw, and partly to spread knowledge about natural farming concepts… but it was also a chance to connect with the city, to tell the story of what on earth natural farming has to do with office workers and …
The Final Straw Project
The Final Straw is a project which sets out to both examine and further the art of Natural Farming as practiced in Japan and Korea, where it has taken shape as a philosophy of respect for nature, rather than just a technical farming methodology.