Thanks for the invitation to participate in the conference held yesterday on the BUSTAN and HEIRLOOM TREE SPECIES at Ramat Hanadiv, cosponsored by Haifa University (Guy Bar-Oz and the Bostan Tree project) KKL, INPA and others. Joining agronomists, botanists and archaeologists, I spoke about the bustan, the traditional orchard of native fruit trees, as a cultural landscape. Why didn't it become an inspiration to Israeli landscape architectural design and part of our design lexicon? I discussed the deep ambivalence toward native vegetation and local traditional landscape forms... part of the ethos of greening the landscape. And the importance of the bustan for agrobiodiversity, food security and more, as recognized by the FAO and IUCN.
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