There are many different methods of gardening but they fall under two main land based methods.
No-dig or Cultivation.
These two categories have entirely different approaches to growing food that involve different thoughts, methods and tools.
Cultivation uses up soil content to grow specific plant-life and usually practices mixing material together into the ground. This step is repeated usually yearly.
No-dig gardening adds onto the ground in layers of material. These layers are added to over time, apart from this the layers are not usually mixed in and are managed rather than restarted.
Agriculture has used cultivation as a primary way of producing for thousands of years and the machinery we see today has been developed from this method in order to industrialise production.
Cultivation is not a renewable system and decays land. No-dig puts back what is taken and stands to add to land. No-dig will become the future of agriculture and starts in our gardens.
The tools and machinery that will expand no-dig gardening are and will be different. We now influence these changes from our gardens up.
Agriculture will, is, and has to change even with our gardens and plots as we innovate and grow our gardens. Let’s run with it.
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