Ancient farm practice could help sustain future humans on Mars

Photo caption: Intercropped tomato (left) compared to monocropped tomatoes (right). Both were planted on the same day, but here we can see that the intercropped tomato plant is larger, bears more fruit, and the tomatoes ripened earlier than its monocropped counterpart. Photo credit: Wageningen University & Research / Rebeca Gonçalves. Article by Laura Baisas. Popular Science – May 1, 2024. Study: PLOS One.

NASA has big plans for space farms and there are plenty of ideas from astrobiologists for what the best crops to grow on Mars could be. To best optimize these future extraterrestrial farms, scientists are also exploring what planting methods could boost potential crop yields on the Red Planet. […]

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