Front yards

A typical homestead or Bari consists of different sites. Hussain and Miah (2004) have categorized it into five micro-sites approach road - a passage or gateway leading to the homestead front yard - the place connected to the approach road or the outer part of the homestead connected with the approach road home yard - the open place in front of the living room backyard - the site behind the household or interior place of the homestead boundary - the borderlines or demarcation lines of a homestead. These micro-sites represent the smallest production units of the home gardens that provide the opportunity to produce diversified products needed for the households for its own consumption and for cash income. However, a homestead may not have all micro-sites and the number of micro-sites usually depends on the size and location of the homestead. 

The front yard is the external part of the homestead, usually connected with the approach road. It is generally wide, leveled, often compact, and usually unfertile. The size of the front yard varies depending on the type of the households. The landless poor or marginal groups households normally have a very small front yard and they grow seasonal vegetables either on the ground or on the trellis or on both, and plant few fruit trees, palms, etc. (Fig. 16.3). The small and medium-size households have a relatively... 

Fig. 16.3 Front yard of a homestead growing various types of vegetables and fruit trees...

Stopping to admire the in the front yard, the young woman... 

FIGURE 2.1 Front yards most people in the world do not have turfgrass front yards. Fronts of homes in Columbus Ohio (A) and Rajasthan India (B). 

Everybody around here, they ll put out a few marigolds, a few impatiens, just enough to dot the landscape. . . We get kind of irritated when people don t do something with their yard. I get mad if people don t put plants out to make their front yard look nice. 

Schroeder, F. E. H. (1993). Front yard America The evolution and meanings of a vernacular domestic landscape. Bowling Green, OH Bowling Green State University Popular Press. 

Outside, we stood unsteadily in the front yard. The night was overcast. Kat seemed to be lapsing in and out of consciousness. It was becoming harder and harder to rouse her. She kept saying that they were burning her, but that she thought she could hold them back. 

I was ounce awakened by a loud noise outside I got out of the bed grabbed a flashlight went to the window lifted the blindes There was a spaceship in my front yard I didn t know what to do Then all of sudden the door of the spaceship s opened up and out... 

Reversal A large outdoor area requires a private swimming pool. Extract a Concept Build pools in large outdoor areas such as front yards, rooftops, and parks. 

Extract a Concept Determine the concept behind the Provocative Thought and use this as the basis to generate new ideas. For instance, the team could use its Reversal PT (a large outdoor area requires a swimming pool) to extract the concept of building pools in large outdoor areas such as front yards, rooftops, and parks. 

Urban or rural soils affected by smelting, milling, or mining activities. Includes past and present industry history. Various soil-sampling methods. Front yard soil, geometric mean. Front yard soil, arithmetic mean. Garden soil. Results closest to smelter. ... 

CSM - Oh, I can t remember that. I don t remember. Another one I got was the occurrance of the blue grosbeak in Ontario where it was over 1,000 miles north of where it was supposed to be. I found out since though, that the birds don t read the books. Well, since I got here, I sit in my front yard down there and I ve seen four that I haven t found anywhere else this year. So you can get them anywhere you go and there s a lot of them. 

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