This post about regenerative agriculture reminded me of something that I learned about last year. In a discussion on the nature of precision agriculture and monocropping methods which have been introduced to areas around the world, one point that was brought up was that plants might thrive in a less homogeneous environment. Meaning that, rather than planting a garden full of one crop(likely for export) one might be better served by mixing crops together.

It’s an old idea, but one that had been ignored by modern agriculture and never fully investigated as it was often assumed to be inefficient. Anyways, its an idea that is returning perhaps to the forefront of Western thought, and researchers have been looking into the idea of gardens as social network.
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