Positive aging benefits of home and community gardening activities: Older adults report enhanced self-esteem, productive endeavours, social engagement and exercise [PDF]
SAGE Open Medicine, 2020 Objectives: This study examined relationships between home and community gardening and older adults’ self-reported psychosocial and physical well-being, attitudes to aging relative to gardening activities and benefits of membership to a gardening group ...
Theresa L Scott +2 more
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Community Gardening: Stress, Well-Being, and Resilience Potentials [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020 The financial and health burdens of stress associated with increased urbanisation have led to a demand for mental health enhancement strategies. While some extant literature details mental health benefits of community gardening, a coherent narrative on ...
Denise Dillon
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Improving lifestyles sustainability through community gardening: results and lessons learnt from the JArDinS quasi-experimental study [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2020 Background Despite an increasing number of studies highlighting the health benefits of community gardening, the literature is limited by cross-sectional designs.
Marion Tharrey +6 more
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Evaluating the Impact of Community Gardening on Sense of Purpose for Persons Living with Dementia: A Cluster-Randomized Pilot Study [PDF]
Journal of Alzheimer's Disease Reports, 2022 Background: Gardening has been shown to have positive effects on persons living with dementia, but no studies have explored the effects of gardening on sense of purpose.
Abigail C. Styck, Daniel R. George
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A culturally tailored community gardening approach to improving physical activity, fruit and vegetable consumption, and psychological health among African American women: A pre-post feasibility study [PDF]
Health Promotion PerspectivesBackground: African American (AA) women participate in low levels of physical activity (PA), under consume fruits and vegetables (FV), and experience poor psychological health. Increasing evidence suggests community gardening as an approach to positively
Imani Canton +4 more
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Participatory Action Research on the Impact of Community Gardening in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Investigating the Seeding Plan in Shanghai, China [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021 Huaiyun Kou, Wenjia Li, Yuelai Liu
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Feasibility of Collection and Analysis of Microbiome Data in a Longitudinal Randomized Trial of Community Gardening [PDF]
Future Microbiology, 2020 Mireia Gascón +2 more
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2022 In this paper we explore how policy discourses on urban sustainability impact the governing of urban food gardening in favoring community gardens. Our main hypothesis is that community gardens better accommodate the tensions created by the discourses of ...
Ingrid Jahrl +3 more
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Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2022 In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, home food gardening articles have saturated popular media outlets. Home food gardening is more popular than ever, and community gardens and community greenhouses are at capacity with long waiting lists for ...
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Canadian Food Studies, 2023 Home food gardening has seen a resurgence since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. This article presents the preliminary findings from the first 6 months of a 22-month home food gardening study in Nova Scotia, Canada.
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