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Rediscovering community: Interethnic relationships and community gardening [PDF]
Gateways, 2010 Community service work, volunteerism and mentoring have recently become popular topics of research as effective methods in improving self-esteem and civic responsibility.
August John Hoffman +2 more
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Community gardening and obesity.
Perspectives in Public Health, 2011 Durham University, look at how community gardening could be a positive option for individuals who wish to confront a weight issue. But is it likely to be facilitated by ‘Big Society’ or ‘nudge’
Helen J Moore +3 more
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Community Seeds: Building Community through Gardening
, 2006 Community Seeds is a beginning. A place for community members, church members, young people, schools, and others to get some basic information on gardening and starting a community gardening project.
McGee, Kristin
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'Cultivating health' : therapeutic landscapes and older people in northern England. [PDF]
, 2004 While gardening is seen, essentially, as a leisure activity it has also been suggested that the cultivation of a garden plot offers a simple way of harnessing the healing power of nature (The therapeutic garden, Bantam Press, London, 2000).
Milligan, Christine +2 more
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Who Gardens and How in Urban USA: Informing Social Equity in Urban Agriculture Action Plans
Frontiers 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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In the garden: capacities that contribute to community groups establishing community gardens
International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 2022 Based on case studies in Dublin, Ireland, this paper examines the motives for individuals to establish community gardens therein. The paper also outlines the capacities required for community groups to successfully establish and sustain community gardens in Ireland.
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Evaluation of the impact of a school gardening intervention on children's fruit and vegetable intake: a randomised controlled trial. [PDF]
, 2014 Background: Current academic literature suggests that school gardening programmes can provide an interactive environment with the potential to change children’s fruit and vegetable intake.
Neil Hancock +9 more
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, 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.
Heather Kitzman-Ulrich +3 more
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Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016 This study examined a struggling community gardening program in a low-income minority community in Phoenix, Arizona. The gardening program exists within a larger local food initiative organized by a nonprofit community development organization.
Tommy Bleasdale +2 more
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Educating Future Generations of Community Gardeners
Critical Education, 2012 In this paper, I formulate a Deweyan argument for school gardening that prepares students for a specific type of gardening activism: community gardening, or the political activity of collectively organizing, planting and tending gardens for the purposes
Shane Jesse Ralston
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