[firesteelrain]

It’s amazing how smart our ancestors were and creative and observant based on amateur science and gardening skills. The amount of planning and organization this must have taken would require a large coordinated effort.

[cvoss]

But a farmer is a professional scientist and a professional gardener. Living 1k years ago did not make them uninformed or unskilled at their profession. It's quite a modern bias to suggest this is amateur.

[firesteelrain]

My use of ‘amateur’ was more about how their methods predate formal scientific institutions rather than diminishing their expertise.

[duxup]

"Stuff grows good in this black muck, but floods here and is hard to work in. Let's bring some of it up closer to the camp."