The agricultural technique known as “Wild Farming” is a growing alternative to “factory farming”. Wild farming consists of planting crops that are highly associated and supportive to the natural ecosystem.[1] This includes intercropping with native plants, following the contours and geography of the land, and supporting local food chains.[2] The goal is to produce large crop yields, while still promoting a healthy environment. Wild farming is a backlash against the dominance of factory farming. Up until the mid 20th century, agicultural crop yields relied on natural inputs such as rainfall patterns, natural soil resources, recycling of organic matter, and built-in biological control mechanisms.[2] Currently, agricultural practices have been conventionalized to include large monocropped fields and use of synthetics: pesticides and fertilizers. Avoiding the conventional farming practices, wild farming adopts many practices from sustainable agricultural systems such as agroecology, permaculture, forest farming, and greywater systems. The four basic guiding principles of the wild farming movement are:
1. Direct managers to develop long-term vision for future of landscape
2. Basic recognition of ecosystem processes.
3. High value on biological diversity.
4. To consider the quality of life of the community as well as the self.
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Me on the right and my boyfriend on the left. I’ve never loved someone as much as I love him, hes my my entire world. <3
“The drug war is the way our culture acknowledges to itself that it has no idea how to tear down the race and class barriers it has built up.”
[Harry:]
Now and then I think of when we were together
Like when you said you felt so disloyal you could die
Told myself that you were there for me
But felt so helpless in your company
But that was friendship and it’s an ache I still rememberYou can get addicted to a certain kind of…