He did not fertilize or sprinkle medicine, but he cultivated amazing apples. In the past year alone, more than 4, 000 people wanted to eat the apples he had personally planted, and more than 6, 000 people visited his apple orchard. His story was written as a book, and the book was recorded in a 50-week program on the Amazon best-selling list in Japan. The program was replayed more than 100 times so far at the request of the audience. Passing through the foothills of Yanmu Mountain in the northern plain of Japan, to the orchard of the legendary Kimura, it is not the imaginary manicured look in the eyes. Instead, in the weedy jungle, the locusts only jump around and frogs rip open the scorpion. For apple farmers, maintaining a clean apple orchard is not only an indispensable job for obtaining fruitful fruit, but also a morality, but the orchard in Kimura is like a wild mountain. Because set here are no pesticides sprinkled here. Since 1978, Kimura has not used a drop of pesticide or a fertilizer in this orchard.
What makes Kimura rise is the "Agricultural Life" which was read by the book "Natural Farm Law" which was accidentally read, "Nothing is done, and pesticides and fertilizers are not used. " Did you still have this kind of agricultural life? As a farmer, Kimura could not help but be curious. He is a person who does not look back when he looks for one thing.
From then on, he started Apple's new cultivation method. Today's apple trees have been improved for hundreds of years, and only rely on modern agricultural technology to survive, so no pesticides, almost meaning the extinction of apple trees. Therefore, Kimura has no income for several consecutive years, and a family of seven continues to live a life of extreme poverty. To get rid of dozens of pests that eat apple leaves and flower buds, Kimura took the whole family day and night in the flowered, fruitless orchard, using both hands to catch pests and spray vinegar.
"At that time, I did not consider the issue of income at all. The things I wanted to try came out of my mind one after another. When I was eating, I put the soy sauce on the rice and I thought that it would be effective to make the soy sauce. " He often went to the orchard to talk to the fruit trees, and asked them to come over and blossom. To support his family, when there is no rice to eat, Kimura takes things to pawn; when there is no money, he goes to the construction site and the hotel to do the work that others think is low. However, the situation of the apple tree is getting worse and worse, and countless pests make the neighbors extremely dissatisfied.
The local fruit farmer took the nickname "extinguish the stove" for him, meaning that the fire of the stove was extinguished. This is the biggest insult to farmers. He once thought about giving up, but once he gave up, he would be skeptical about his method of planting, which is the most unacceptable to him. Without a shot, he even thought of a suicide. It was at this time that he found the answer to the natural farming law from the wild fruit trees. It turns out that manual insecticides are in vain, and soil and natural ecosystems are the key. As a result, Kimura began a new experiment in the orchard, and the apple tree gradually returned to health.
In the eighth year of stopping the use of pesticides, seven apple blossoms were finally opened in the orchard, two of which had fruit. The two apples were the harvest of the year. Kimura shared the apples in the temple and shared them with the whole family. The two apples were surprisingly delicious, and he finally saw the dawn after the hardship. Today, Kimura has planted apples for 37 years. He is 60 years old, but he looks older than his actual age. This is because he was beaten when he was working in a hotel, and his teeth were lost. "Because I am a fool, I just want to go forward like a mountain pig. I thought that one day I will succeed. " This is the mantra of Kimura.
There have been 120 years of apple cultivation in Japan. Many people have tried pesticide-free and fertilizer-free cultivation before, but after trying for four or five years, they think it is impossible to give up. Kimura has been struggling for 11 years. "Maybe because I am too stupid, the apple tree can't stand me, I have to make an apple, " he said. After Kimura’s story was widely circulated in Japan, a young man who wanted to commit suicide called him and said that he failed regardless of what he did. After seeing Kimura’s talk show, I changed my mind and finally have the courage to continue to live.
Asked Kimura what he said to the young man at the time, he thought a little:
"I seem to say that it is good to be a fool. As long as you actually do it, you know that there is nothing simpler than being a fool. Since you want to die, Then be a fool before you die. As a person who has had the same idea, I have come to realize one thing: crazy for one thing, one day, you can find the answer. "
Crazy for one thing, one day, you can find the answer. Kimura’s words are doing his life.