Something I learned as a landscape contractor in my 20’s. Plant yields depend on time + space Those cannas in the back are prolific…just like a soybean will be IF you create the right environment Landscapes manifest like a city In the 1800’s the rich lived just outside of downtown. As homes became older and needed more paint…roofs..maintenance they moved. They built new homes outside of town. Those old homes are now homes for the poor. They have become dilapidated. Plants behave in the same way without the space to grow, without deadheading or pruning, and without sequencing new lifecycles. Grazing resets plants. Intercropping…plant sequencing and pruning creates space for new growth. You can extend the reproductive time period of a landscape by being cognizant of these truths. Every year I watch people spend $500 on larger flowers, stuff them in to make them look pretty immediately… and then they die in July or August What I learned is that if I planted bulbs in the fall, interplanted small flowers that are 2-5% of the cost earlier… and then pruned out the spring flower arrangements in May I could extend the life, beauty, and curb appeal of the landscape. That’s all I’m doing with my relay beans. I want to have a crop that draws moisture out of the ground, speeds up aggregate canopy… and then I can harvest without having to kill TO MAKE ROOM for reproductive vegetation that is created later… so I get more fruit from each plant. It’s 2nd order science. Turn attributes into assets. Turn economies of scope into ROI. I call it #farmweird because that’s the joke. Weird is a weaponized word in our society. We need the boogey men…we need the people with purple hair and nose rings to use to push our agendas. Because society looks at things like your either this or that… but life is more a spectrum. Until you experiment and try things and built off of your own experiences you’ll fall in the trap of conformity.