Big Ag, Biomimicry, Praire Farms

Modeling human systems, like farms, on natural ones, like prairies, is known as biomimicry. In her seminal book on the topic, biomimicry pioneer Janine Benyus says Jackson's methodology, of "learning a native system, intuiting its 'rules,' and then slowly trying to raise a stable community of crops that mimics the structure and performs the function of the wild one" is the archetypal example of how agriculture might be saved by learning from nature.

Good article about efforts to create ecologicaly diverse permaculture that mimics and maintains the balances of natural environments while yielding robust crops and without raping the soil of nutrients and fauna.