Hi! Today I´m gonna talk about Permaculture. This is a science that imitates natural ecosystems, so it can be sustainable farming. To learn more about this science, I watched a video called "7 Food Forests in 7 Minutes with Geoff Lawton" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG_vRG66wkA); in this video he shows the different stages of a crop, but the interesting part is that he uses permaculture to grow it, so at the beginning he has to move the soil and control the crop, but when the crop has grown, he hardly makes effort, because it selfmaintains except for some soil moving.
This is a very good kind of farming, because it strengthens the growth of the plant itself, without using chemical substances that kill the plagues and exhaust the soil, that the only thing they do is interrupt the natural cycle of the ecosystem.
In Chile, this kind of farming would be so useful to improve the soil and to stop pollution from chemicals like fertilizers and fumigations. But, of course, it would be so difficult to convince the farmers that permaculture is better than agriculture currently used. As Tommy Douglas said: "Courage, my friends; it`s not too late to build a better world".
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