>then I read a tiny book called "One Straw Revolution" and I was sold on the simpler life.
Good book, I have read it. Check out Krishna McKenzie of Solitude Farm, Auroville, India. An Englishman who studied at a J. Krishnamurti school in England, read that One Straw book by Masanobu Fukuoka while still in school, was so influenced by it that he went to Auroville and started a farm there (with a few others), based on Fukuoka's natural farming and permaculture's principles - all this, 25 years ago, and he is still going strong there. He has many videos on his Youtube channel about his farm work, edible weeds of the area, their farm cafe where they sell/serve healthy organic food made from their farm products, food and medicinal values of the 140-odd species they grow there, making permaculture circle gardens, hedgerows, mulch trenches, growing with high biodiversity, etc.
Good book, I have read it. Check out Krishna McKenzie of Solitude Farm, Auroville, India. An Englishman who studied at a J. Krishnamurti school in England, read that One Straw book by Masanobu Fukuoka while still in school, was so influenced by it that he went to Auroville and started a farm there (with a few others), based on Fukuoka's natural farming and permaculture's principles - all this, 25 years ago, and he is still going strong there. He has many videos on his Youtube channel about his farm work, edible weeds of the area, their farm cafe where they sell/serve healthy organic food made from their farm products, food and medicinal values of the 140-odd species they grow there, making permaculture circle gardens, hedgerows, mulch trenches, growing with high biodiversity, etc.