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An orchard is an intentional planting of trees or shrubs maintained for food production.
An orchard is an intentional planting of trees or shrubs that is maintained for food production. Orchards comprise fruit- or nut-producing trees which are generally grown for commercial production. Orchards are also sometimes a feature of large gardens, where they serve an aesthetic as well as a productive purpose. A fruit garden is generally synonymous with an orchard, although it is set on a smaller non-commercial scale and may emphasize berry shrubs in preference to fruit trees. Most temperate-zone orchards are laid out in a regular grid, with a grazed or mown grass or bare soil base that makes maintenance and fruit gathering easy.
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Orchard(s) may also refer to:
- Seed orchard, refers usually to a place where seeds for forest culture are produced
- Orchard (surname)
- Orchard FM, an independent radio station in England
- Orchard Books, a children's book publisher
- Orchard oriole (Icterus spurius), a small blackbird
- Orchard (RTD), a transit station in Greenwood Village, Colorado
- Orchard (VTA), a transit station in San Jose, California
- Operation Orchard, Israeli airstrike in Syria
A seed orchard is an intensively-managed plantation of specifically arranged trees for the mass production of genetically improved seeds to create plants, or seeds for the establishment of new forests.
Orchard is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
The orchard oriole is the smallest species of icterid. The subspecies of the Caribbean coast of Mexico, I. s. fuertesi, is sometimes considered a separate species, the ochre oriole or Fuertes's oriole.
