About Panos Panos Manikis Born in Greece in 1951. Although it was an agricultural engineer, never worked as such. Dissatisfied with what he offered the world, lived his youth in search of new ways. Until he came to his hands a small book in English "The revolution of a straw" by Masanobu Fukuoka, and was undoubtedly the day his life changed completely.
came to the islands from Japan in 1980. With little data to Fukuoka gives in his book he could find the house of the teacher without major problems.
The teacher has sent all knowledge: how to use hand tools without getting tired, how to get to the natural shape of a fruit, as nitro without plowing the ground and basically how to look at everything with the mind of Mu, the one made with nature.
Six months were enough to drink in the whole philosophy of the teacher.
Your first step accompanied by a woman he had met on the mountain, was to travel to Europe and organize teacher's first trip to the old world, carrying the seeds of natural agriculture.
Italy, Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, among others, were the countries where they were. Taking the first steps in many farms who wanted to settle in Natural Farming. You held many meetings, lectures at universities and informal meetings in different farms.
All this work was not paid in money, the spirit of Natural Agriculture is to take where is the message ¬ tions without personal interests. Fukuoka
returned to Japan and Panos with his partner in Brazil. There began a natural farm.
After a while he moved to India in search of new horizons, helped with his experience to an established community in the field. He lived in Nepal.
Returning to his country, which incidentally was almost a foot, he meditated long walks in the beginning of a natural farm and the greening of the planet.
crossed India and Arab countries to Greece. To get settled in a small rural area of \u200b\u200bnorthern Greece, Edessa, where he created a farm that was gradually turning the barren landscape in a jungle of fruit and vegetables. In his farm Fukuoka translated several books into Greek, which were published subsequently.
However, the tranquility of rural life is not absorbed completely. The fate of the troubled world.
And that was the main partner of Fukuoka in his travels around the world trying to green the planet. Were in Africa, Spain, Greece, spreading over large areas. The most important was in 1998 in Greece, more than 10,000 hectares were planted by 300 people from the land, and air, from airplanes and helicopters.