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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New Series: Larry Korn and the Life, Mind, and Farm of Masanobu Fukuoka
A three part, short interview series, exploring the philosophy of natural farming, and how to apply it to life.
Making the Film: A Search for “Root” Solutions to Social Issues
Our best solutions revolve around the need to be connected and to form compassionate relationships…
Free Food Kit – Edinburgh
In early 2013, we developed the Free Food Kit for N3 Art Lab in Japan, now it comes to Edinburgh…
Interview with Larry Korn
This is a bit of great news, yet it’s also old news now. To my credit, at the time I was on the craziest 4-week schedule in recent memory, shooting amazing gigs for ZERO1 and Nova Jiang, clearing out and selling off everything in my studio, and moving to Edinburgh to dig into the Art, …
Natural Agriculture in Santa Cruz
News update for the Final Straw documentary: Since returning from farms in Japan and Korea, I’ve been searching more for Japanese-style natural farms on the West coast of the U.S. — they have been very hard to find/contact — and just this week a very special farm named “Shumei” has offered to give a tour …
Filming – A Week in Western Japan
This week we filmed in Osaka, Nara, and Fukuoka, and each day was full of fresh local food. In Nara, our amazing Japanese interpreter and I spent an extended weekend withYoshikazu Kawaguchi, a natural farmer who runs a free monthly farming class, including free practice farming plots for students; about 300 students were in attendance …
First Farm Visit in Korea
Just returned to Seoul this afternoon from a beautiful mountainside farm in Hongcheon, a few hours outside of Seoul (by train and bus). The owner of the farm, Seonghyun Choi (his nickname is Gaeguri, meaning ‘frog’ in Korean), is not only a natural farmer, but an author on the topic as well. He was also one of …
Meeting Seonghyun Choi — The Beginning of Final Straw
It’s 2011, and Suhee and I live and work in Seoul and Silicon Valley respectively. Being a part of these two giant, fast-paced economies, we have both seen our fair share of social and ecological problems. The reality of living in the middle of a social and economic system based on the fairy tale of …
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