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ancient...?

• steanne 5y ago
  yes. untended for 150 years, planted possibly 2000 years ago.
• oh_sigh 5y ago
  > For their study, the researchers selected four archaeological sites that had been occupied for more than 2,000 years: two Ts’msyen village complexes in northwestern B.C. and two Coast Salish complexes in the southwest. (A village complex consists of two or more nearby villages, each containing five to 20 houses.) Indigenous peoples tended forest gardens on these sites until they were displaced in the late 1800s.
  • wizzwizz4 5y ago
    I wonder whether enough of the knowledge was preserved for any of their descendants to still know how to tend the gardens.
    • magicink81 5y ago
      Maybe. Many modern people have also learned how to establish forest gardens. GEOFF LAWTON is among them. https://www.greeningthedesertproject.org/ https://www.greeningthedesertproject.org/