Journal

Notes from the field.

BLOF, living soil, and building production areas across India.

Tsuzuku · BLOF · Soil

Sakori, in the rain: scouting a Tsuzuki trial plot, starting with the soil

On June 25, in the middle of the monsoon, we visited the field in Sakori village where a Tsuzuku demonstration trial is planned. BLOF begins the only way it knows how: not with products, but with a measurement. We came home with bags of soil.

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Tsuzuku · BLOF · Soil

Tsuzuku — soil that continues

Tsuzuku is M2Labo's name for the Indian implementation of BLOF — Bio Logical Farming, the Japanese science of building living soil. Not a product you spray on, but a method that makes soil keep producing: higher yield, better quality, fewer chemicals, season after season. つづく — it continues.

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Tsuzuku · BLOF · Soil

Two climates, one method: proving Tsuzuku from the Himalayas to the Deccan

A farming method only earns its name when it travels. Tsuzuku — M2Labo's Indian implementation of BLOF — is being proven on the same principles across cool Himalayan foothills and the hot red soils of the Deccan. Same three pillars; two completely different soils. Here's how it holds.

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