Do-nothing farming required decades of close attention to perfect

Evidence

Fukuoka’s method required less labor, no machines, and no chemicals, but it took him decades to perfect and required extremely close attention. If everything was done at precisely the right time, the reward was unmistakable: not only was Fukuoka’s farm more productive and sustainable than neighboring farms, his method was able to remediate poor soils after a few seasons, creating farmable land on rocky outcrops and other inhospitable areas. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 646

Categorization

• QUESTION: The fact that ‘do-nothing’ was laboriously perfected directly addresses the reader’s question about whether Odell’s solutions require privilege — this suggests attention and time, not leisure, are the load-bearing resources.