While the academic, lab and research road down this path is known, few orgs have been successful at applying this at scale.

One of the lesser known state supported entities out of India - https://apcnf.in/ is arguably one of the largest natural farming operations in the world. They have been studying not just how these interactions work, but also the critical points at which one can do high leverage, yet low cost inputs.

Below is an upcoming webinar if you'd like to learn how to get off industrial fertilizers, pesticides and even tractor spends in farming operations. As the natural systems are degrading.. i feel these pathways become fundamental technical innovations to keep the farming servers running the OS called planet Earth.

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Thrilled to see keen interest nature based computing at HN, therefore taking the liberty to share.

Full disclosure is that these methods aren't innovated by them as much as assimilated and fine tuned. Most of the knowledge is threads weaved from superhero permaculturists and scientists from USA, Europe and around the world.

Their edge of course has been observing the quiet ways of indigenous communities who quietly - apply knowledge (vs publishing). Working at almost a country scale has also given them experience on the social, economic and technical APIs of society which are necessary to take innovations from pilots to mainstream scale.

NCNF (National Coalition for Natural Farming) and RySS (Rythu Sadhikara Samstha) invite you to a webinar on Science of Natural Farming

Date/Time - 30th April (Tuesday), 3 pm

Speaker - Shri T Vijay Kumar

Panelists - - Dr Chandrashekhar Biradar - Ms Sabarmatee - Shri Soumik Banerjee

Registration - Please register through the link here - https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oU80YM7oTti439W0...

This webinar will be conducted in English and Hindi.

IIRC, I have read somewhere that many plants do this. It is part of their symbiosis with bacteria and fungi in the soil, and the fungal networks extend far beyond the plants' locations.

In fact we humans also do it, willy-nilly. We have billions of gut and other bacteria in us, many times more than the number of cells in our own bodies.

Jeff Lowenfel’s “Teaming With Microbes” is a fantastic introduction to the soil food web and its implications for organic no-till farming. Highly Recommend.

https://www.amazon.ca/Teaming-Microbes-Organic-Gardeners-Rev...

I thought this was true for a lot of plants…