Orchards
Plantation fields with planted fruit cultivation/fruit trees (apples, apricots etc.); special version: extensive fruit cultivation on meadows with a higher number of fruit trees.
Source: Definition elaborated by the Eucaland-Project for project purposes
Extensive orchard with fruit trees, in the background intensive fruit plantations on terraces, Cornillac/France (Photo: Alexandra KRUSE 2016)
Database entries forOrchards
Research: Zdeněk Kučera; upload: Bénédicte Gaillard. Entries in progress.
complex issue
18th century when planting of fruit trees at arable land took place
recently orchard meadows are gaining more… [Read more]
Some writings about orchards in France dating from the 16th Century have been found.
Research: Alexandra Kruse & Michael Roth; upload: Bénédicte Gaillard. Entries in progress
Research: Martina Slámová, Jana Špulerová, Marta Dobrovodská, Dagmar Štefunková; upload: Bénédicte Gaillard. The entries are still in process.
- Fruit-growing in Slovakia has a long tradition. The natural and climatic conditions enable cultivation of varied cultivar, especially plum trees that were cultivated in ancient times. … [Read more]
