agrarian landscape
Countryside with fields
An agrarian landscape is countryside shaped by farming—fields, pastures, orchards, and the settlements that serve them.
The term appears in geography, planning, and environmental writing to distinguish rural areas organized around agriculture from wilderness or urban development: The agrarian landscape of the Midwest stretches for hundreds of miles.
It often carries nostalgic or preservationist overtones.
- rolling hillsGently rising, falling landscape
- terracesRaised flat outdoor areas
- rural communitiesNon-urban population centers
- crop rotationAlternating field plantings yearly
- agroforestryTrees integrated with farming
hedgerows · soil fertility · pastures · farmhouses · family farms · biodiversity · windbreaks · irrigation · vineyards · subsistence farming · monoculture · barns · dirt roads · water cycles · carbon sequestration · agritourism · food security · orchards
agrarian landscapeurban skyline
Silhouette of city buildings
cityscape · urban landscape · metropolitan area · downtown · concrete jungle
agrarian landscapestrip mall
Row of adjacent storefronts
urban blight · brownfield · quarry · landfill
agrarian landscapewilderness
Uncultivated, uninhabited natural region
untamed wilderness · wild landscape · virgin forest · primeval forest · natural landscape
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