To grow the best, most nutritious crops, farmers needed (to put it in modern terms) to view their land not as a store of chemicals to be managed efficiently but as a complexly interacting living system to be cherished and maintained. Every part of the system contributed to the whole, but one predominated: the soil.
To grow the best, most nutritious crops, farmers needed (to put it in modern terms) to view their land not as a store of chemicals to be managed efficiently but as a complexly interacting living system to be cherished and maintained. Every part of the system contributed to the whole, but one predominated: the soil.
