homegarden

English

Etymology

From home +‎ garden.

Noun

homegarden (plural homegardens)

1. The yard areas surrounding a house.
   • 2009, Rui Murrieta, Antoinette WinklerPrins, “‘I Love Flowers’: Home Gardens, Aesthetics and Gender Roles in a Riverine Caboclo Community in the Lower Amazon, Brazil”, in Cristina Adams, Rui Murrieta, Walter Neves, Mark Harris, editors, Amazon Peasant Societies in a Changing Environment: Political Ecology, Invisibility and Modernity in the Rainforest, Springer Science+Business Media, →ISBN, part IV (Gender and Daily Life), page 261:

     Based on the ideas and concerns discussed above, we want to propose a more multi-leveled approach to understanding how some of the caboclo women farmers on Ituqui Island, in Lower Amazon, Brazil, relate to their physical environment, especially their homegardens, and the implications for their lives as well as for their families and immediate community. For this, we will introduce aspects of the social, economic and environmental interactions of Ituqui women and their activities in homegardens.

   • 2015 December, Suprabha Seshan, “Cry me a river”, in New Internationalist, number 488, New Internationalist Publications Ltd., →ISSN, page 35, column 2:

     Our homes were in the proposed area of submergence. We’d have to move with our friends and families, our dogs and cows, and forsake our homegardens and fields, the plants we had planted, the birds, butterflies, frogs, snakes, and other beings of this valley, and this tiny headwater of a stream we’d nurtured.

   • 2016 January, Eric Toensmeier, The Carbon Farming Solution: A Global Toolkit of Perennial Crops and Regenerative Agriculture Practices for Climate Change Mitigation and Food Security, White River Junction, Vt.: Chelsea Green Publishing, →ISBN, page 43, column 1:

     Today many homegardens are threatened by urbanization, industrialization of agriculture, and other challenges. In some regions, market pressures are causing people to strip their homegardens down to fewer species in order to meet consumer demand for specific products.

References

• “homegarden”, in IPBES, 2009.

Further reading

• home garden on Wikipedia.Wikipedia