So if you think intensive gardening is new, think again.
French intensive gardening started in the 1890s on two acres of land just outside of Paris.
In Olmsted's day, intensive gardening kept woodlands weeded.
Well, real intensive gardening style ... say five acres.
Ms. Weinsteiger stressed the importance of good soil for intensive gardening.
They engaged in ritual burial and intensive gardening.
An elderly woman told to be careful, not to run up and down stairs, not to do any intensive gardening, and so on and so on.
There he encountered a group of farmers committed to intensive organic gardening in the French style.
Under the rocks, she found a thoroughly mixed soil typical of intensive gardening and traces of rotted tubers, even part of an ancient hoe.
They researched intensive gardening, biological pest control, cover cropping, irrigation using fish pond water, perennial food crops, and tree crops.