Also, gardeners can use this information to guide how they go about it. I used to want to grow my own food, thinking I would be helping the environment. But I

Also, gardeners can use this information to guide how they go about it. I used to want to grow my own food, thinking I would be helping the environment. But I realized I probably couldn’t compete on efficiency with real farmers. So instead, I garden to provide ecosystem services with plants that foster native biodiversity. There isn’t a profit motive to doing this so it isn’t optimized like farming is.