I have to disagree with the wikipedia article. Fruit orchards are not frequently mentioned with "silvopasture"
Unfortunately, this term is not defined in any of the British English dictionaries that I've found online, or in reliable American English dictionaries. The only online dictionary definitions I found were: "The practice of combining forestry and grazing of domesticated animals" in "yourdictionary.com" and "glosbe.com" - both are the same. The cited wikipedia article links to the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture), which has a whole "Agroforestry" section (another buzzword...), which says: "Silvopasture is the deliberate integration of trees and grazing livestock operations on the same land. These systems are intensively managed for both forest products and forage, providing both short- and long-term income sources." https://www.fs.usda.gov/nac/practices/silvopasture.php So it seems that USDA's definition agrees with what I wrote before: it's for grazing and forest products, not food production in an orchard. Thus "silvopasture" is not a good term to use for places that combine orchards with pasture or meadow; it's likely to cause confusion. The lack of definitions in common dictionaries (and in Google Translate) will also make it hard to find equivalents in other languages. - Joseph On 9/19/19, Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 09:47, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Right. Silvopasture combines trees used for forestry with grass for >> grazing. >> > > From the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvopasture: > > Silvopasture is compatible with fruit, nut, and timber production. Grazing > can serve as a cost-effective vegetation and weed control method. > Silvopasture can also help reduce pests and disease in orchards - when > introduced into an orchard after harvest, livestock are able to consume > unharvested fruits, preventing pests and diseases from spreading via these > unharvested fruits and in some cases consuming the pests themselves > > > That means that the trees are used to produce for forestry products: >> usually wood or timber, sometimes bark, sap, or other non-food products. >> > > Or fruit. Or nuts. As per the Wikipedia article. > >> >> Orchards produce food: usually fruits like bananas, coconuts or oranges, >> but also tea leaves, coffee beans, and fruits used for oil like olives >> and >> oil palms. (According to current osm usage) >> > > See Wikipedia article, and above quotation from it. Silvopasture includes > orchards and other food > trees. > > -- > Paul > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
