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Community gardens as a response to the contradictions of sustainable urban policy: Insights from the Swiss cities of Zurich and Lausanne

open access: yesFrontiers 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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Seeds and the city: a review of municipal home food gardening programs in Canada in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

open access: yesHumanities & 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 ...
Janet Music   +4 more
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Growing local:

open access: yesCanadian 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.
Janet Music   +3 more
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Who Gardens and How in Urban USA: Informing Social Equity in Urban Agriculture Action Plans

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2022
Urban agriculture, is increasingly incorporated into food system policies to address social equity. However, assessing its effectiveness requires primary data on the demographics of agricultural gardeners and the type of gardening pursued, which are ...
Kirti Das, Anu Ramaswami
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Beyond community gardens [PDF]

open access: yesElem Sci Anth, 2020
The urban landscape is being transformed formally and informally to increase production and access to locally sourced produce. Although cultivation of urban produce lowers the carbon footprint of food production by removing transportation to market, there is a lack of studies that investigate both toxic element profiles and nutrient content of produce ...
Ciaran L. Gallagher   +2 more
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Community Gardens [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
A community garden is a great place to grow nutritious food, fresh flowers, and even a more vibrant and sharing community! This publication tells about all sorts of community gardens and shows you how you can set one up in your own neighborhood.
Bauermeister, Mark   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

The work of community gardens: reclaiming place for community in the city [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The growth of community gardens has become the source of much academic debate regarding their role in community empowerment in the contemporary city. In this article, we focus upon the work being done in community gardens, using gardening in Glasgow as
Crossan, John   +3 more
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Transforming urban bioresources through community gardening in Public Housing, Kuala Lumpur [PDF]

open access: yesBIO Web of Conferences
Community gardening in public housing estates offers a community-driven strategy to transform underutilized tropical bioresources into socially, ecologically, and economically valuable systems.
Mohd Sharif Shahida   +2 more
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During COVID-19, Californians sought food security, connection and solace in their gardens

open access: yesCalifornia Agriculture, 2023
Gardening offers a range of benefits, from food production to social connection to improved mental and physical health. When COVID-19 struck, interest in gardening soared, but it was unclear whether and how gardens would deliver these benefits in the ...
Lucy Diekmann   +6 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Multispecies community gardening: Inquiring material-discursive anthropocentrism through a Roman gardening experience

open access: yesTextes & Contextes, 2021
Positioning my investigation within feminist posthumanist studies, in this article I will focus on the incessant interactions of more-than-human life that co-construct urban spaces.
Beatrice del Monte
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