Rice planting method of transplanting seedlings into grass

If you mention rice transplanting, most people probably picture themselves standing with both feet in a paddy field churned into mud, holding rice seedlings in both hands, and working backwards to tuck each seedling into the mud one by one! But in Nan'ao I learned about another transplanting method that follows natural farming: "no plowing, no reliance on outside inputs, no removing what is in the field, and no treating insects and weeds as enemies" -- and I was lucky enough to be able to put it into practice right away.

Nan'ao is a treasured place. Besides Nan'ao Natural Farm, which practices natural farming on a production scale, A-Cong Natural Farm insists on following Shumei Natural Farming to grow beans, rice, and wheat, and small tenant farmer Guanyu, after studying under the Japanese natural farming master ”Kawaguchi Yoshikazu”, rents land in Nan'ao and lives close to self-sufficiency.

Because of a field that had unexpectedly gone undisturbed for a long time, we had the chance to build a time machine and see what a rice paddy that had not been plowed for thirty years might look like. After I enthusiastically proposed it, Guanyu and volunteers from Nan'ao Natural Farm all expressed their willingness to support and take part, and so the no-till rice paddy experiment began.