Re: [Tagging] food forests / forest gardening

sent from a phone > On 31. Jul 2020, at 11:34, joost schouppe wrote: > > I think that is a good idea. Even if the "form" is not really orchard-like, > the "function" absolutely is. And the key is already in use and documented. I think I would rather see these as kind of garden, with

Re: [Tagging] food forests / forest gardening

Thanks Joseph, I think that is a good idea. Even if the "form" is not really orchard-like, the "function" absolutely is. And the key is already in use and documented. I'll go with this for now. Op do 30 jul. 2020 om 16:41 schreef Joseph Eisenberg < joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com>: > A

Re: [Tagging] food forests / forest gardening

The problem with tagging it as an orchard isn't that it doesn't look like an orchard in the British sense, it's that it intentionally does not look like cultivated land at all. Banana and date plantations still look very artificial, with very little ground cover or biodiversity, while a typical

Re: [Tagging] food forests / forest gardening

A landuse=orchard is any area of perennial shrubs and trees which is used to produce food. In the tropics this tag is used for bananas tea and coffee, and oil date palms, all of which are not exactly “orchards” in the British sense. This was proposed in the original vote. So if Wikipedia is

Re: [Tagging] food forests / forest gardening

On 2020-07-30 7:40 a.m., Paul Allen wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 at 12:34, joost schouppe > wrote: > > > Someone tried to map a "food forest" near me. > > > The best I could come up with, given that it described itself as part > orchard, > was landuse=orchard. 

Re: [Tagging] food forests / forest gardening

sent from a phone > On 30. Jul 2020, at 13:42, Paul Allen wrote: > > The best I could come up with, given that it described itself as part orchard, > was landuse=orchard. If we ever come up with a more appropriate tag I'll > change it there’s no principal problem with using undocumented