I think the main 2 problems were bugs and plant-care-is-hard.
That contradicts my understanding of forest gardening. It’s one of the oldest agricultural methods, it’s low maintenance, and polyculture encourages diversity, which would seem to make pests a considerably smaller problem than in monoculture.
I know of this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beacon_Food_Forest but I have to ask the question; if they are so great; why don’ they exist more often? There is likely something that I am missing from the picture.
That contradicts my understanding of forest gardening. It’s one of the oldest agricultural methods, it’s low maintenance, and polyculture encourages diversity, which would seem to make pests a considerably smaller problem than in monoculture.
I know of this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beacon_Food_Forest but I have to ask the question; if they are so great; why don’ they exist more often? There is likely something that I am missing from the picture.
Yeah, I’m not sure either. There are more economical ways to perform agriculture, of course. That’s probably part of it.