Aug 8, 2022
5 min read
Monoculture
Why biological and cultural diversity is the way forward
A farmer woke that morning in 1845. He nudged his two children out of the way, covered them up with some of the straw his wife kept on the dirt floor, and went outside to pee. Peeing on cabbages and beets had always produced bigger, tastier cabbages and beets, so he had kept up his morning contribution to the kitchen garden, even though he was now…
