Subject:
The Power of Diversity - in gardens and in life
One of the factors that weakens any system - a garden, a community, a nation - is lack of diversity.
Monocultures provide economies of scale, but also opportunities for scaled disaster. A messy, diverse ecosystem is far healthier and more resilient.
Today I talk about how we support diversity in our garden, and why the messiness and inefficiency is more than compensated for in terms of yield and risk management.