Knowing we are vastly ignorant, we acknowledge that our best opportunity is to learn from nature's arrangements that have shaken down over the millennia. We are acutely aware that we cannot ignore the wisdom of the social sciences or humanities. We are never, for all practical purposes, going to understand the nervous system, let alone the nature of all the feedback loops and intersecting variables within the human body. The social sciences and the humanities people are the students of complex patterns. Shakespeare was such a student.
Historians are such students.
Most scientists are not. We hope to help move science to be more attentive to other disciplines as part of a general effort to get knowledge out of its categories. We want to honor the reality of the ecological mosaic and be promoters of local adaptation. We want to help end the era which has featured Homo the homogenizer. We are dedicated to research in Natural Systems Agriculture under a larger canopy of interest that includes forestry and fisheries.