{"id":64438,"key":"Home_gardens","title":"Home gardens","latest":{"id":1206617,"timestamp":"2025-11-27T20:30:37Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"[[File:Howe's Farm and Garden - panoramio (10).jpg|thumb]]\n\n'''Home gardens''' are a type of forest gardens found in humid areas. They use [[intercropping]] to cultivate [[tree]]s, [[crops]], and [[livestock]] on the same land. In [[Kerala]] in South [[India]] as well as in northeastern India, they are the most common form of land use; they are also found in [[Indonesia]]. One example combines coconut, black pepper, [[cocoa]] and pineapple.\n\nThese gardens exemplify [[polyculture]], and conserve much crop genetic diversity and heirloom plants that are not found in [[monocultures]]. There are now efforts to apply a similar concept in temperate climates ([[forest gardening]]).\n\n== See also ==\n\n* Multiple cropping\n* [[Forest gardening]]\n\n== External links ==\n\n* [http://web.archive.org/web/20120717003649/http://archive.idrc.ca/library/document/104582/maheshwa.html Maintenance and Conservation of \"Heirloom\" Varieties in Indian Agro-ecosystems]\n* [http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/T7750E/t7750e06.htm Tree components in farming systems]\n* [http://www.fao.org/docrep/006/y5112e/y5112e00.HTM Livelihoods Grow in Gardens - Diversifying Rural Incomes Through Home Gardens]\n* [http://www.unu.edu/unupress/food/8f073e/8F073E01.htm#Household-level%20food%20production Household-level food production]\n* [http://web.archive.org/web/20070126053653/http://www.thewebofhope.com:80/hopestars/biodiversity/ Web of Hope: Kerala's forest gardens]\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n| keywords = gardening\n| ported-from = http://permaculture.wikia.com/wiki/Home_gardens\n}}\n\n[[Category:Gardening]]"}