dark age

what direction do you look to ?
many people now look to the future for better innovations and information,
but the reality of farming is that most of the good information is in the past,
many people discount the past,
and I have no idea why,
people use to spend there entire life learning things and then write a book on the topic,
now people spend a few months researching on the web and write a book on something,
people seem to have no attention span for real in depth learning anymore,

the permaculture people keep inventing new methods,
and everyone of them is a shallow poor version of a well known practice in the past,

so if you want the best knowledge on gardening, then look a while before the 1800's through about the middle of the 1900's
the books from that era no longer have copy rights on them,
and they are where to look for info,
most are posted on the web for free download (take advantage of it)

most of what people do now is to toss more water, fertilizer, and pesticides at problems,
they don't even bother to breed local adapted crops anymore, 
we are currently in an agricultural dark age, and don't forget it.