# Fruit-Wall ## Definition A wall constructed around a kitchen garden or orchard to protect fruit trees from wind and to create a warmer microclimate that extends the growing season. The cost of building and maintaining fruit-walls is justified by the higher value of the protected fruit production. ## Source Chapter Book I, Chapter 11 ## Context Smith uses fruit-walls as an example of agricultural improvements that increase the value of land by enabling the production of higher-value crops that would not otherwise be viable in the local climate. ## Economic Domain Production ---