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>It's much more efficient to grow food where it grows best Food grows best (when measured in both biomass-per-acre and biomass-per-man-hour) in forests, not mo
by schiffern 12y ago
>It's much more efficient to grow food where it grows best
Food grows best (when measured in both biomass-per-acre and biomass-per-man-hour) in forests, not monoculture fields. This becomes pretty obvious when you compare the percentage of sunlight that hits bare soil.
The only trick is to figure out how to design a forest (a non-trivial task by itself) using species that produces edible biomass, and arrange everything such that it's easy to harvest.
One example of forest gardening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFbcn06h8w4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFbcn06h8w4
- Litost 12y agoMany thanks for the post, and the link which eventually led me to this, in which Martin Crawford also appears: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVBYgg013KM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVBYgg013KM which also explains why both old (reliant on intensive manual labour) and modern farming methods (almost entirely reliant on oil) are unsustainable in the long term.