[Tagging] Tagging meadow orchards

[Joseph Eisenberg]

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 <pla16021 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 09:47, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenberg at 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
>