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| ====== Origin of Forest Gardens ====== | ====== Origin of Forest Gardens ====== |
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| from The forest-garden farms of Kandy, Sri Lanka ([[http://books.google.com/books?id=G3QPo7lThXsC]] full view) by Douglas John McConnell: | From 'The forest-garden farms of Kandy, Sri Lanka' ([[http://books.google.com/books?id=G3QPo7lThXsC]] full view) by Douglas John McConnell: |
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| ''Forest gardens farms may be as old as the human race itself. They originated in prehistoric times along jungle-clad river banks and in the wet foothills of monsoon lands. In the gradual process of a family or clan's improvement of its immediate environment, useful tree and vine species were identified, protected, and improved while undesirable species were eliminated. Eventually superior foreign species were obtained and incorporated into the gardens. '' | ''Forest gardens farms may be as old as the human race itself. They originated in prehistoric times along jungle-clad river banks and in the wet foothills of monsoon lands. In the gradual process of a family or clan's improvement of its immediate environment, useful tree and vine species were identified, protected, and improved while undesirable species were eliminated. Eventually superior foreign species were obtained and incorporated into the gardens. '' |
| ====== In Europe ====== | ====== In Europe ====== |
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| There are no native forest gardens in Europe, but people are constructing them as an art. They do differ from swidden-operated forest gardens in their effort to be sustainable over longer periods of time. To be more precise, a forest garden in european style stries to create a closed system, while the (neo-)tropical variety creates a window of opportunity before the forest will invade again beyond reproach. | Douglas John McConnell writes in his 'The forest farms of Kandy: and other gardens of complete design' ( [[http://books.google.nl/books?id=QYBSfUJPQXcC]] preview) that "Swidenning is now confined largely to the tropics but as recently as 1920 it was still common in North Europe and existed in remote places in Finland into the 1970ties." There are no native forest gardeners in Europe at this time, but people are constructing them as an art. They do differ from swidden-operated forest gardens in their effort to be sustainable over longer periods of time. To be more precise, a forest garden in European style stries to create a closed system, while the (neo-)tropical variety creates a window of opportunity before the forest will invade again beyond reproach. |
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| Moulsecoomb Forest Garden: http://www.seedybusiness.org/ | Moulsecoomb Forest Garden: http://www.seedybusiness.org/ |
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