[Tagging] Tagging meadow orchards

[Paul Allen]

On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 00:33, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
wrote:

I agree the term silvopasture is not a synonym for meadow orchards. A
> meadow orchard is specifically low density/sparse trees, while silvopasture
> indicates a forest/woodland, i.e. denser tree cover.
>

Really?  I don't see anything in the Wikipedia article that specifies the
tree cover is dense.  In
fact, it says: "Integrating pasture into existing woodland presents
challenges as well: the woodland
likely needs to be thinned to increase light infiltration"  It also has
pictures of several different
silvopastures, none of which appear to have dense tree cover throughout.

Also the meadow in meadow orchard can be used for either pasture or cutting
> the grass, while silvopasture implies pasture.
>

The trees scattered throughout would make it more economic to put animals
out to pasture on
it than to mow it.  But maybe where you are people do things the least
efficient way.  Even if
that is the case, I doubt that would remain viable for much longer.

BTW, we're probably fooling ourselves in many cases where we say a field is
pasture or
meadow: it may change from year to year.

-- 
Paul
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