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 ====== Intro ======
-Forest gardens represent a farming technique radically different from Western (mono-)agricultural models and concepts. For many primary people around the world the cultivation and redesigning of patches of forest to create a reliable source of foodstuffs is elemental to their survival. For some Amazonian people (suppossed hunter/gatherers) for instance it is calculated that 90% of their diet is produced in their gardens. The fact that many trained observers (like ethnobotanists) can completely miss a forest garden when they are right in front of it indicates that they are not just an accomplished and ecological sound cultural achievement, but that they inhibit a conceptual space beyond our immediate cultural perception.
+Forest gardens represent a farming technique radically different from Western (mono-)agricultural models and concepts. For many primary people around the world the cultivation and redesigning of patches of forest to create a reliable source of foodstuffs is elemental to their survival. For some Amazonian people (supposed hunter/gatherers) for instance it is calculated that 90% of their diet is produced in their gardens. The fact that many trained observers (like ethnobotanists) can completely miss a forest garden when they are right in front of it indicates that they are not just an accomplished and ecological sound cultural achievement, but that they inhibit a conceptual space beyond our immediate cultural perception.
 ====== Origin of Forest Gardens ======
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 Forest gardens with the rainforest instead of against it, gardens have high species diversity, with a few specimens of many species, to keep the bugs out. Special adjustments may be done to attract animals (from useful insects to tasty wildlife and also tasty insects).
-A garden is never fully abandonded, after three years a garden may be completely overgrown with weeds and thorny bushes, and the people using it may migrate, they will come back often to harvest it. see [[Ecosystem_gardening]]
+A garden is never fully abandoned, after three years a garden may be completely overgrown with weeds and thorny bushes, and the people using it may migrate, they will come back often to harvest it. see [[Ecosystem_gardening]]
-For forest people, gardening is a state of mind, a mode they are never out of. The entire amazon is now believed to one huge man-made landscape kept intact by contant pruning and weeding as humans move through it.
+For forest people, gardening is a state of mind, a mode they are never out of. The entire Amazon is now believed to one huge man-made landscape kept intact by contant pruning and weeding as humans move through it.
 ====== In Europe ======
-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.
+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 strive to create a closed system, while the (neo-)tropical variety creates a window of opportunity before the forest will invade again beyond reproach.
 Moulsecoomb Forest Garden:  http://www.seedybusiness.org/