In this article, we make the case for home gardens to be understood as “open-air” laboratories— sites of experimentation, collaboration, and negotiation both among humans and non-humans. Our examination specifically draws on case studies from Amazonia to highlight the deep history of concentrated human activities in gardens (or garden-like environments) as well as their ongoing importance for contemporary agrobiodiversity management, historical memory, and socio-cultural continuity in the face of modernization and environmental change. We discuss how Amazonian home gardens have evolved over time and how they serve to challenge Euro-American conceptions of gardens. Through an examination of both ethnobotanical and archaeological research, we show that Amazonian home gardens are manifestations of deeply rooted histories of experimentation with the diversity of Amazonian life.

在本文中，我们将家庭花园理解为“露天”实验室，即人类与非人类之间的实验，合作和谈判场所。我们的审查特别借鉴了亚马逊地区的案例研究，以突出人类在花园（或类似花园的环境）中进行的人类活动的深厚历史，以及它们在面对当代农业生物多样性管理，历史记忆和面对人类社会文化连续性方面的持续重要性。现代化与环境变化。我们讨论了亚马逊家庭花园如何随着时间而演变，以及它们如何服务于挑战欧美的花园概念。通过对民族植物学和考古学研究的考察，