Are farms part of nature? Are they more or less "natural" than say a garden?

I think that farms and gardens are equally natural. The main difference between a farm and a garden is that a farm's purpose is to produce food, while gardens are created more for self satisfaction and recreational purposes. They both are impacted greatly by humans. We choose what to grow and do whatever we can to make sure it stays alive by spraying pesticides and planting specific rows of seeds. Even though we do a lot to alter the natural resources we use in a farm or a garden, it is still partly considered natural. Gardens and farms thrive best out in nature and need sunlight and water to grow succesfully. In the book, Pollan states, "Planting these in intelligible rows not only flatters our sense of order; it makes good sense too: weeding and harvesting become that much simpler. And though nature herself never plants in rows-or parterres or allees-she doesn't necessarily berudge us when we do"(Pollan 185). When we garden or farm, we might do things that are not natural, but at the same time, mother nature has not provided us a big enough consequence to stop doing either. People are able to eat all the the food we eat today because of the chemicals that they use on farms to make fruits and vegetables edible. It is too bad that we have to use chemicals and have to have complete control over our farms and gardens for them to work, but it is something needed to be done.