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Organic gardening is great, but some of us want to go beyond "organic" to a system of gardening that mimics natural ecosystems in our gardens, tapping into the wisdom and ecological services that have evolved and been perfected over hundreds of millions of years. These are the most powerful tools in any garden, always.

Mimicking our surrounding ecosystems in our gardens makes us providers of habitat for all life that exists around us—giving the denizens of the natural world places to hide, hunt, sleep, and eat and to grow and reproduce—letting predators and prey find their own balance, just as they do everywhere and, in doing so, allows our gardens to become a beneficial part of the ecosystem instead of working against it.

It's an acknowledgment that natural processes don't stop at the garden fence and that we are all deeply reliant on ecosystem services everywhere, whether we're cognizant of them or not.

In many ways, this way of gardening is a return to "old-school" organic practices, before there became an official USDA version of them and they became more about non-synthetic, non-chemical versions of conventional agriculture instead of the farming and gardening practices that were modeled after and fit into ecosystems.