Stunning aerial view of lush rice terraces in West Java, Indonesia.

Floating gardens and fire-sticks

The Aztecs built chinampas. The Mayas farmed swamps with canals and raised fields.

Agriculture — Indigenous Farming Innovations

A forest fire burning in a woodland area with a person managing the controlled blaze.

Farming with fire

Indigenous Australians used fire-stick farming, creating a low‑intensity fire pattern that sustained a kind of “wild” permaculture.

Agriculture — Indigenous Farming Innovations