Review - George Monbiot article
He writes of the difficulties of producing enough food to feed 8 billion people (and the global population is rising rapidly), and the well-fed's enjoyment of "peasant food" and low-yield agriculture - somehow more authentic (my words) than higher-yield. He doesn't, to be clear, advocate the industrialisation of agriculture, but there is much that has been learnt over the past century about maximising production without damaging the land.
This is part of an important debate about how to feed people on a planet where resources are increasingly stretched, and I recommend it.
The tomatoes are my own! Look out for a post next spring about maximising yield in an organic raised bed system. I have discovered a technique which yielded 45kg from 7 plants in 2022 (the hottest and driest UK summer ever), and 38kg this year (2023 - a cool and wet summer). Not bad - and the tomatoes clearly were very happy!