Question

How did inorganic farming start?

Answer 1

Organic farmer and CSA manager at U.C. Davis Student Farm. Coauthor of Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food (2008) with Pamela C. Ronald.

Answer 2

Answer:

Traditional farming (of many particular kinds in different eras and places) was the original type of agriculture, and has been practiced for thousands of years. All traditional farming is now considered to be "organic farming" although at the time there were no known inorganic methods. For example, forest gardening, a fully organic food production system which dates from prehistoric times, is thought to be the world's oldest and most resilient agroecosystem.[