If all of this sounds like a lot of work, it is. But to [Joel] Salatin, it’s only natural — and beneficial — that regenerative farming would lead to a need for more farmers. “Duplication is the way nature increases stuff,” he explains. “If nature wants more humans, it doesn’t make a bigger human, it makes babies. If nature needs more tomatoes, it doesn’t make a monstrous tomato plant, it expects people to plant more tomatoes.” The analogy with small-time farmers versus massive industrial operations is obvious. The former is healthy, the latter is abnormal — farming like Frankenstein.