What Bali's Ancient Rice Farmers Can Teach Your Backyard Garden
Long before 'companion planting' became a buzzword on gardening forums, Balinese farmers were perfecting a water-sharing, crop-rotating system called Subak that fed communities for over a thousand years. Now, American home gardeners are quietly borrowing those same principles — and their harvests are showing it. Here's how the wisdom of Bali's terraced hillsides is finding a new home in backyards from Vermont to Oregon.