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Sharing Visions of Gardening in the Community [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Tollefson, Elizabeth. (2014). Sharing Visions of Gardening in the Community.
Tollefson, Elizabeth
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Colonial and gendered peace: Decolonial perspectives on peace in Nagorno‐Karabakh

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article critically interrogates peace processes in the aftermath of the First Nagorno‐Karabakh War by centering the lived experiences and political voices of Armenian and Azerbaijani internally displaced and refugee women, based on ethnographic fieldwork and in‐depth interviews conducted in 2019.
Ramil Zamanov
wiley   +1 more source

Defining the pollinator garden: is conceptual flexibility a feature or a bug?

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and the Environment, EarlyView.
Ecologists often aim to reduce conceptual ambiguity by attempting to create rigid shared lexicons. These efforts imply that ambiguity is undesirable. In some contexts, however, conceptual flexibility comes with under‐discussed benefits. Here, we use the lens of pollinator gardening to explore how conceptual flexibility is built into participatory ...
Atticus W Murphy   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cultivating health: community gardening as a public health intervention

open access: yes, 2011
Internationally and locally, interest in community gardening is growing. It is being seen as part of the solution to address local, national and global challenges that range from poor nutrition and food insecurity to environmental sustainability and ...
Earle, Margaret Dora
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Best Practices for Community Gardening

open access: yes, 2014
Report, presentation and poster completed by students enrolled in PA 5242: Environmental Planning, Policy, and Decision Making, taught by Dr. Carissa Schively Slotterback in spring 2014.This project was completed as part of the 2013-2014 Resilient ...
Leslie, Madeline   +3 more
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Legacy effects of redlining on the distribution of greenspaces in US cities

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and the Environment, EarlyView.
We investigated how a discriminatory housing policy—redlining—has shaped the spatial patterns and configurations of greenspaces throughout 177 cities in the contiguous US. Housing segregation has been a long‐term development practice that has sequestered communities of color to areas with elevated environmental and public health risks.
Travis Gallo   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Political gardening, equity and justice: a research agenda

open access: yes, 2019
While most of the existing literature on community gardens and urban agriculture share a tendency towards either an advocacy view or a rather dismissive approach on the grounds of the co-optation of food growing, self-help and voluntarism to the ...
C. Certoma', C. Tornaghi
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Barriers to Community Gardening in Portland, OR

open access: yes, 2019
This paper analyzes structural, social and cultural barriers to community gardening in Portland, Oregon. Both the majority of Portland\u27s demographics and the majority of its community gardeners are white, with much of the minority populations being ...
Schrup, Jullian Michael
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Multifunctional Properties of Wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens) Essential Oil: Antimicrobial, Antibiofilm, and Insecticidal Effects

open access: yesFlavour and Fragrance Journal, EarlyView.
Unveiling the potential of Wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens) essential oil. ABSTRACT This study investigated the antimicrobial, antibiofilm, and insecticidal properties of wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens L.) essential oil (GPEO). The EO was chemically characterized by GC–MS, confirming methyl salicylate as the predominant compound (99.3%).
Miroslava Kačániová   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Are Community Gardening and Horticultural Interventions Beneficial for Psychosocial Well-Being? A Meta-Analysis. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Environ Res Public Health, 2020
Spano G   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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