DESAIN TAMAN EDUWISATA BERBASIS AGRO

People familiar with a garden as a beautiful place, full of pretty blooming flowers. That is an ideal picture of a garden known by people in general. It is also a place for recreation and being refresh. A research on designing an agro-based edu-tourism garden is an effort to show that using landscape architectural point of view, a piece of land with education and research functions can also provide a sense of aesthetic value for users and visitors. Garden design that is carried out on a kebun environment setting can be created in such a way as to provide recreational and educational benefits as well. Some additional supporting facilities will be needed to achieve the goal. Some facilities that are planned to be designed in Faculty of Agriculture research center kebun will be a unique design of welcome area, a well-organized parking area, good circulation, and also some multi-function facilities to support activities and programs of kebun. In this case, kebun shall be understand as an experimental garden. An interesting and beautifully design experimental garden will enhance the aesthetic value of a place and should impress visitors. It will also draw public impression away from a kebun that deals with dirt and muddy soil to a place that suits for recreation and education as well. Experimental gardens can be beautiful, interesting, and unique as well. As an experimental garden managed by the Faculty of Agriculture, Udayana University, the design of this agro-based edu-tourism experimental garden will provide a new face and perspective for visitors and users, especially the students and faculties. Keywords: Experimental Garden; Garden; Edu-Tourism; Agro-Based Garden.