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Earth Dumpling Energy! Time to think about Spring and Seed Bombs.

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Earth Dumpling Energy! Time to think about Spring and Seed Bombs.

  Are you familiar with seed bombs? As you may have noticed, we like to discuss the history of things at Pulp. And seed bombs are a real doozy. Lazy gardeners, read on.  Masanobu Fukuoka was a  Japanese microbiologist and farmer. Somewhat of a philosopher, too. He celebrated natural farming and revegetation of desert lands and came up with the idea of ‘Do Nothing’ farming in his book ‘One Straw Revolution’. A kind of Zen Farming tome, the book “critiques almost every aspect of food, bodies, and culture in a witty and effortless way”.  He points out why modern farming...

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Welcome To Your Japanese 5-Star Hotel Experience: Ten-Hour Flight Not Included.

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Welcome To Your Japanese 5-Star Hotel Experience: Ten-Hour Flight Not Included.

Don’t even think about anything else right now. Instead, imagine a full day of sightseeing in Nippon: bowing sagely and feeding crackers to the Nara deers, sampling freshly-caught Japanese mackerel from a world-class sashimi chef, perhaps first-class seats on the bullet train with uninterrupted views of Mt Fuji. Then you end the day with a relaxing private onsen. You step out refreshed and with complete and total ease. Satisfied. The experience is only heightened by wrapping yourself in the softest, most luxurious inner pile towel you have ever known. And in case you can’t quite viscerally picture it in your...

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