Agroforestry (§ Forest gardening) — merged from 'Forest gardening'

Urban Farm DB summary

The 'Forest gardening' URL now redirects to a section within Wikipedia's merged 'Agroforestry' article. Per that section, forest gardening is a low-maintenance, perennial, woodland-modeled food production system practiced since prehistoric times in the tropics; horticulturist Robert Hart coined the term and adapted it for temperate climates in the 1980s. The article states Kerala, India has 'no fewer than three and a half million' forest gardens, citing one 0.12-hectare plot found to contain 23 young coconut palms, 12 cloves, 56 bananas, 49 pineapples, and 30 pepper vines.

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• 3,500,000 count

  forest garden count(kerala forest gardens)

  SocialControl: reported as 'no fewer than'

  region

  Kerala, India

• 500 sqm

  model orchard area(robert hart forest garden)

  Design

  region

  Shropshire, UK

  year

  1980s

• 23 count

  coconut palm count(kerala forest garden plot)

  Yield

  region

  Kerala, India

  method

  0.12 ha study plot

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