Well, this is going to be a bit of a weird post. This past weekend I went to Prague in the Czech Rebuplic. On the drive there I saw an amazing collection of Soil and Land Management techniques. I was really impressed that every area we drove around outside the city had these different practices: terracing, vertical drain lines, intercropping, agroforestry, etc. I also saw allotments in the smaller towns, but not much within the city of Prague itself. This is probably due to the fact that the city was built up a lot during its early years, then destroyed during WW2, and rebuilt during Communist times. Today there was a lot of construction going on; almost every street I went on/by had something being built, replaced, or fixed. The greenest areas I saw were attached to religious buildings in the way of small parks and cemeteries. I took pictures through the bus' dirty windows of the places outside of town so they are not the greatest, but I'll try and say something about each of them.
The above image shows contour line planting up a hill with vertical drain lines and a forest topping the hill. Most places where there was agriculture you could find small forests and trees left intact with the crops planted around them.
