- Notes on the translation
- PART I. Look at this Grain
Toward a Do-Nothing Farming
One Reason Natural Farming Has Not Spread
Humanity Does not Know Nature
- PART II. Four Principles of Natural Farming
Growing Rice in a Dry Field
Growing Vegetables like Wild Plants
The Terms for Abandoning Chemicals
Limits of the Scientific Method
- PART III. One Farmer Speaks Out
A Modest Solution to a Difficult Problem
The Marketing of Natural Food
Commercial Agriculture Will Fail
Research for Whose Benefit?
A Merciful Death for Barley
Simply Serve Nature and All is Well
Various Schools of Natural Farming
- PART IV. Confusion About Food
- PART V. Foolishness Comes Out Looking Smart
I Was Born To Go to Nursery School
Drifting Clouds and the Illusion of Science
A Village Without War and Peace
The One-Straw Revolution.