Farming

Farming
Lauren Brooks
Before reading Ecology of Eden, I didn’t think a lot about farming and its impact on the world. Many people think that farming is easy, I know I did, don’t u just plant the food in the ground and it grows? Little did I realize that there is so much that goes into farming today and that there is also so much harm that is done in farming today.
While researching for our group project I learned a lot about the importance of soil in farming. Soil is actually alive with many organisms and animals that really take care of the soil and give it the nutrients and organic matter that it needs to grow food successfully. In today’s world we have decided to kick all of those organisms and animals out of the soil and try to recreate artificially what they are doing with the soil. However the sad news is that we can not duplicate these relationships. We are injecting foreign organism into the soil and its doing nothing to better farming. We need to take a break and let the soil do the job that we can not do and get back to a more natural and organic way of farming.