Excellent summary of recent agriculture. Do all these 'ponics' where the plants are grown as a monoculture with no natural ability to call in predators for pests need lots of pesticides and fungicides? Also I read infections from the water can spread quickly throughout the growing system as a whole, affecting all plants. The plants cant bring in phytochemicals to protect themselves as they are disassociated from their environment. Basically the plants are slaves to the humans system, unable to use their own systems. Very far away from Kimmerer's vision of reciprocity.
Excellent summary of recent agriculture. Do all these 'ponics' where the plants are grown as a monoculture with no natural ability to call in predators for pests need lots of pesticides and fungicides? Also I read infections from the water can spread quickly throughout the growing system as a whole, affecting all plants. The plants cant bring in phytochemicals to protect themselves as they are disassociated from their environment. Basically the plants are slaves to the humans system, unable to use their own systems. Very far away from Kimmerer's vision of reciprocity.