Eli5: why we need to plant seeds, but in nature they just grow where they fall?

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Eli5: why we need to plant seeds, but in nature they just grow where they fall?

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If you leave it to nature, it won’t produce as much as we like it to. That’s how farming was invented. Humans (and our ape ancestors) had been *gathering* wild plants to eat for millions of years. But at some point, someone had the idea “y’know, if we took the seeds and planted them ourselves we could grow more and in a more convenient location than the plants would naturally.”

That’s farming, baby.