Horticulture
In anthropology, small-scale growing of crops in gardens with hand tools, without ploughs or large irrigation.
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Horticultural societies grow food in garden plots using digging sticks, hoes and their own labour. They often grow many crops together and may also hunt, fish or keep a few animals. Anthropologists use the word to separate this from intensive farming with ploughs and draught animals.