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We just design everything ecologically, period.

Everything that we do, you know, our goal is and should be to strive to be as ecological as possible.

And if we do everything according to nature's rules, we can't screw up.

That was Mark Shepard, the CEO of Forest Agriculture Enterprises, the founder of Restoration

Agriculture Development and New Forest Farm, as well as the author of the award-winning

book Restoration Agriculture, Real World Permaculture for Farmers.

Stay tuned as we're about to explore why we need to stop

trying so hard to realize a world based on persistent concepts and ideals that we made up,

and instead get out more to observe and learn from how natural ecosystems actually function.

What is problematic about how we've developed a food system based mostly off of annual crops versus perennials,

how he's been able to utilize a near hands-off approach to growing food productively and regeneratively,

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