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industrial agriculture is destroying this important biome. Watch 'kiss the soil' on netflix and look into permaculture/forest style gardening. Guided natural pr
by sumosudo 5y ago
industrial agriculture is destroying this important biome.
Watch 'kiss the soil' on netflix and look into permaculture/forest style gardening.
Guided natural processes could just save us from monocultured death.
- agumonkey 5y agoI wonder how much we can "extract" while minimizing disruption. Maybe.. hopefully a new agricultural science emerges from the urgent need to nurture the biosphere.
- contingencies 5y agoMy personal interest is to see independent small scale robotics enable efficient harvesting of densely inter-planted spaces which will facilitate higher aggregate output while supporting greater biodiversity at all levels (soil, fungi, insect, bird, plant) without the artificial fertilizer and pesticide inputs. Sort of The One-Straw Revolution plus robots. No idea how feasible it is, at a guess it is unlikely to compete with the scale of existing systems up front in terms of yield per acre but probably can on fiscal returns vs. cash invested in marginal or non-flat terrain.