More than borderline, there are many many examples these days of people practicing forms of ecologically-informed agriculture that match or exceed the yields of destructive systems and methods.

When I first heard about Permaculture in the late 80's it was still pretty obscure, and regenerative agriculture in general was "hippie-dippy". Nowadays there are thousand of projects with videos on the youtube, and people are practicing ecologically harmonious farming all over the world. See especially Gabe Brown's talk linked below, he's not replacing current agriculture, just updating it with scientifically-grounded techniques that improve the volume and vitality of his topsoil while being more profitable.

Quoting from some notes I've been keeping:

There's the "Grow Biointensive" method which is designed to provide a complete diet in a small space while also building soil and fertility. They have been dialing it in for forty years and now have a turn-key system that is implemented and functioning all over the world.

=> http://growbiointensive.org/ Grow Biointensive

(These folks are also selling their system, but they also have e.g. manuals you can download for free. I find their site curiously hard to use.)

## Permaculture

Permaculture could be called "applied ecology" (with a kind of hippie spin.) and a similar school (or parallel evolution) called "Syntropic" Agriculture. Both of these systems aim to mimic natural ecosystems to create "food forests" that produce crops year-round without inputs (no fertilizer, no irrigation.) The process takes 5-15 years or so but then is self-sustaining and regenerative.

For Permaculture I find Toby Hemenway's (RIP) videos very good:

=> https://tobyhemenway.com/videos/how-permaculture-can-save-hu...

=> https://tobyhemenway.com/videos/redesigning-civilization-wit...

There's a very lively and civil forum at

=> https://permies.com/forums

## Syntropic agriculture

=> https://agendagotsch.com/en/what-is-syntropic-farming/ Syntropic agriculture

(FWIW, I find Gotsch's writing (in English) to be impenetrable, even though I pretty much know what he's doing. Anyway, his results are incontrovertable.)

I'm afraid I don't have a good link in re: Food Forests and eco-mimetic agriculture yet. This "Plant Abundance" fellow's youtube channel might be a good place to start, in any event it's a great example:

=> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEFpzAuyFlLzshQR4_dkCsQ "Plant Abundance" (youtube)

## Growing Power

If you really wanted to maximize food production and aren't afraid of building insfrastucture (like greenhouses and fish tanks) there's the (sadly now defunct) *Growing Power* model:

=> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growing_Power

=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs7BG4lH3m4

=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV9CCxdkOng

They used an integrated greenhouse/aquaculture/compost system to produce massive amounts of food right through Milwaukee winters.

## Regenerative Agriculture

Then there is the whole field (no pun intended) of *Regenerative agriculture*, e.g.:

=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUmIdq0D6-A "Treating the Farm as an Ecosystem with Gabe Brown Part 1, The 5 Tenets of Soil Health" (youtube)

=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXRNF_1X2fU "Symphony Of The Soil" Official Trailer (youtube)

This is very much non-hippie, very much grounded in (often cutting-edge) science (ecology, microbiology, etc.) and ecologically and economically superior to artificial methods (e.g. Brown makes money. It's actually weird that more people aren't adopting these methods faster. You make more money, have fewer expenses, and your topsoil builds up year-on-year rather than washing away in erosion.)

## Miyawaki method

For regenerating native forests, not agriculture per se.

=> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Miyawaki