One final benefit: no carpal tunnel syndrome. Food and farming systems that enjoy significant diversity also require many different processes. Maintenance tasks from one hour to the next involve quite different types of work. That, in turn, exercises a whole different set of muscles throughout the day. Variety truly is the spice of life. Think, however, about the kind of farm encouraged by the industrial system. It’s devoid of variety and all of nature’s checks and balances. Farms should be seen as art forms. They are landscape sculptures. They should not be boring and same old, same old.
