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It is very therapeutic to garden, though. (lemmy.today)

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[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 17 points 4 months ago

This is one of the things I find funny about modern day self sufficient communes. Subsistence farming is awful, industrialized farming is less awful, but still far more work than most are willing to ever do.

[-] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 28 points 4 months ago

The issue is that the current farming techniques are not sustainable.

The fertilizers and pesticides used are burning the land, polluting the underground water pools and killing a bunch of animals and insects.

The agriculture needs to change to something sustainable.

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works -4 points 4 months ago

Modern farming techniques consider sustainability, the larger problem is countries using traditional methods that are extremely harmful like burning forests.