i like to live off of the land.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Agriculture is the cultivation and breeding of animals, plants and fungi for food, fiber, biofuel, medicinal plants and other products used to sustain and enhance life. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the development of civilization. The study of agriculture is known as agricultural science. The history of agriculture by humans dates back thousands of years, and its development has been driven and defined by greatly different climates, cultures, and technologies; industrial agriculture based on large-scale monoculture farming has become the dominant agricultural method. Although generally understood to denote the practices of humans, other animals\u2014for example, fungus-growing ants\u2014have also been found to engage in agriculture. Modern agronomy, plant breeding, agrochemicals such as pesticides and fertilizers, and technological developments have in many cases sharply increased yields from cultivation, but at the same time have caused widespread ecological damage and negative human health effects. Selective breeding and modern practices in animal husbandry have similarly increased the output of meat, but have raised concerns about animal welfare, environmental damage (such as massive drainage of resources such as water and feed fed to the animals, global warming, rainforest destruction, leftover waste products that are littered), and the health effects of the antibiotics, growth hormones, artificial additives and other chemicals commonly used in industrial meat production.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I am just starting to go off the grid, but I have a lot to learn about growing my own food."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Definitely. Agriculture is used to sustain life. You will need to learn how to cultivate and breed animals, plants, and some medicinal plants."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Well, luckily I am vegan, so I am just tryinf to learn how to grow vegetables and fruits.  Do you know anything about that?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Not really but you could speak with a agricultural scientist. That is someone who studies agriculture."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I wonder where I could find someone like that.  Do agriculture scientists go to a special school for that?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Possibly. Agriculture dates back to thousands of years. It has been driven by different cultures, technologies, and climates."}, {"role": "user", "content": "How far back does it go?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It goes back thousands of years. Strangely enough there have been examples of other animals that engage on agriculture."}, {"role": "user", "content": "What other animals engage in agriculture?  That is very interesting."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "There are fungus-growing ants. They engage in agriculture to grow fungus."}]