My garden is flourishing like never before. I can't even find any aphids or potatoe bugs at this point. Just several spiders and lady bugs. There is much to be said about just how productive a small 2m by 1m plot can be. Nature can be used to work for us instead of against us. Prior to the industrial revolution, most farming was essentially done this way. Soil fertility, when organic agricultural principles are applied, can be maintained almost indefinitely. Unfortunately our current problem with soil erosion and desertification all stems from the fact that we're not maintaining the ecosystems of the land that's being farmed. Now if only there was a way to do intensive organic agriculture without intensive inputs of manual labor. If we could just get machines or some kind of automata to matain large agricultural acreages without oil and natural gas then our problems would be solved.
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