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Organic gardening is the third "alternative", and it has been proven to work, work well, refined for hundreds of thousands of years, is well known and the risks
by berkes 3y ago
Organic gardening is the third "alternative", and it has been proven to work, work well, refined for hundreds of thousands of years, is well known and the risks are known extremely well.
It's not robotics or chemical, that's a false dichotomy.
And yes, I am aware of the "tradeoffs" of organic farming. But it still is a viable business plan, often the farmers' margins (at least in west EU) are much higher than "chemical farming". And no, not always is the yield lower. Nor are the crops it always more expensive. And no, the common conception that "we cannot feed the world with organic farming" is also disproven.
- evandijk70 3y agoDo you have any references to these claims?
- lukeschlather 3y agoOrganic farming still uses "organic" pesticides like copper. The real falsehood is that organic farming is perfectly nontoxic and safe. Looking forward to having more advanced robots, we could start seeing a lot more permaculture. Organic farming not only relies on pesticides and herbicides but also on monocrops and tilling all of which add up to a lot of problems. Robotic tending could eventually allow more diverse permaculture to take over.