{"id":43,"date":"2019-04-30T16:51:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T16:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shumei.uk\/yatesbury\/?page_id=43"},"modified":"2025-12-21T11:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T11:21:08","slug":"aboutus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/shumei.uk\/yatesbury\/","title":{"rendered":"Yatesbury Natural Agriculture Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cJust like music or painting, farming is an art whose product touches your soul.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/strong>Miyoshi Nakamura, Natural Agriculture farmer and teacher, Japan<\/p>\n<p>When we eat great tasting, healthy food we know this is true \u2013 but seldom do we think of farming in these terms.<\/p>\n<p>Shumei\u2019s Natural Agriculture approach <!--more--><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">to farming places health, beauty and love at the core of its practices. When Nakamura himself was learning Natural Agriculture, he was taught \u201cLove nature, love crops and love your community.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Health starts with healthy soil.\u00a0 Natural Agriculture is <strong>free from<\/strong>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chemicals,<br \/>\nPesticides,<br \/>\nFertilisers, or<br \/>\nAnimal manures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rather, through careful observation, growing crops that are suited to the local soil, and creating a balanced eco-system in which all elements co-exist, the soil is nurtured into a state of full health.<\/p>\n<p>Using seeds from the crops grown in this soil produces strong, vigorous plants which, over time, can withstand harmful insects, diseases and adverse weather conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The overall result is life-affirming, health-enhancing vegetables which taste rich and full of goodness!<\/p>\n<p>Come to our beautiful farm at Yatesbury and see for yourself!<\/p>\n<p>Volunteer in exchange for some free veg!<\/p>\n<p>3 Yatesbury, Calne, SN11 8YG<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"gfm-embed\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/help-us-to-share-natural-agriculture-practice\/widget\/large?sharesheet=firstTime\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cJust like music or painting, farming is an art whose product touches your soul.\u201d Miyoshi Nakamura, Natural Agriculture farmer and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-43","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"campaignId":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shumei.uk\/yatesbury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shumei.uk\/yatesbury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shumei.uk\/yatesbury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shumei.uk\/yatesbury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shumei.uk\/yatesbury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/shumei.uk\/yatesbury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/shumei.uk\/yatesbury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shumei.uk\/yatesbury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}