It’s less about yields and more about ways of viewing and experiencing the world, which in turn changes the kind of questions people ask. “What are the yield n

It’s less about yields and more about ways of viewing and experiencing the world, which in turn changes the kind of questions people ask. “What are the yield numbers for practice X?” “How can we maximize yields?” “How can we supply population size Y?” “How do we grow food to standards that are sellable in grocery markets?” “How can we keep grown produce fresh enough to transport them thousands of miles away?” In contrast to things like: “What makes for a healthy ecosystem (which includes plants, animals, fungi, and humans)?” (A farm as an ecosystem rather than a machine that produces food) “How do we incorporate waste as an input to another living system within the ecosystem?” “What can we grow locally that would support the community and reduce dependency on long-haul transported food?” “What are the feedback cycles in our ecosystem and how can I design in a way to add more of such processes?” “What small changes I can make to those feedback cycles that would create larger effects in the ecosystem?” “What yields are we not incorporating into the design of our ecosystem?” “How can I turn the margins into productive land?”