b023 - Ecological Adaptation Strategy - Harnessing the Power of Plants for Changing Times - Presented by Joseph Simcox

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily · Jul 31, 2015 · 47m

Something so evident yet so ignored by industrial agriculture, why agriculture in the future must use plants that are naturally adapted to their environments.

In our present day world man has become so detached from nature that he imagines that he can grow wheat in parched deserts and oranges in the arctic, and while this is only a partially true statement, the fascination with gene tinkering in the laboratory with apparent obliviousness to natural forces has scientists trying to create “organisms” with super powers. The disciples of such approaches to agriculture preach of corn and rice that…