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Why Farming is Broken (And Always Has Been)

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:

  • Annual plant: living for a year or less, perpetuating itself by seed
  • Perennial plant: living for several years
  • Polyculture: the simultaneous cultivation or exploitation of several crops or kinds of animals
  • Natural systems agriculture: cropping systems based on processes found in nature
  • Agroforestry: land use management that combines the cultivation of trees/shrubs with crops/pasture to create more productive and sustainable land-use systems
  • Alley cropping: planting agricultural crops between rows of trees or shrubs


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