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Comment author: Gram_Stone 05 March 2016 09:40:24PM 0 points [-]

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.

Comment author: Elo 06 March 2016 12:11:32AM 0 points [-]

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.

Comment author: Gram_Stone 06 March 2016 12:21:46AM 0 points [-]

Yeah, I'm not sure either. There are more economical ways to perform agriculture, of course. That's probably part of it.