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Community gardening and wellbeing: The understandings of organisers and their implications for gardening for health

open access: yesHealth and Place, 2022
Community gardening is increasingly framed and promoted as a way to foster healthful behaviours, as a wellbeing practice, and as a public health tool. This paper draws on semi-structured interviews with community gardening organisers (n = 9) in the North
Laura Mcguire, Stephanie Morris
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Designing to Support Community Gardens by Going Beyond Community Gardens

2017
Community gardens connect to many organizations in order to receive and offer resources and services. The complex sociotechnical systems in which community gardens inhabit bring both opportunities and challenges for designers who endeavor to support them.
Xiaolan Wang 0003, Ron Wakkary
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Developing “community” in community gardens

Local Environment, 2011
Community gardens are enjoying a renaissance, thought to be due to people's desire to reconnect with food, nature and community. This paper presents results from an exploratory investigation of two community gardens in Nottingham, supported by regional and national contextual analysis. It examines the nature and construction of “community” in community
Firth, C, Maye, D, Pearson, D
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The Economics of Community Gardening [PDF]

open access: possibleEastern Economic Journal, 2014
We evaluate determinants of community gardens in Philadelphia census tracts by developing a model of community gardening and testing it with negative binomial regression techniques. We find that home vacancy rates, labor force participation rates, poverty rates, and the number of healthy food stores have a positive impact.
Amelia Garrett, Michael A Leeds
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Community garden

Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference: Extended Abstracts, 2020
We present Community Garden, an interactive museum exhibit designed to promote connectedness both at the museum and online. To interact with the exhibit, participants draw and share flower petals which are displayed on a communal field, blooming with flowers of other participants.
Jordan Graves, Brian Magerko
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Community Gardening

2012
Während sich weltweit der Trend zur Urbanisierung rasant fortsetzt und der damit verbundene Anstieg der Bevölkerung meist mit zunehmender Umweltverschmutzung, Lärm und der Verdrängung von Grünflächen einhergeht, vollzieht sich gleichzeitig eine interessante Stadtentwicklung von unten, die das Grün in den urbanen Raum zurückkehren lässt: vorübergehend ...
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Citizens of the garden : the meaning and significance of community gardening

2023
La recherche qui suit porte sur l’expérience du jardinage communautaire à Montréal à partir de l’exemple de l’un des arrondissements. Au cours des dernières années, à l’échelle globale, la popularité des jardins communautaires est allée en grandissant. Comment interpréter cela à partir du point de vue des participants? Quelle est l’expérience vécue par
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Carolina Campus Community Garden: Institutionalizing the Campus Community Garden as a Model for Sustainable Food and Gardening Education in the UNC Community

2012
Background: The mission of the Carolina Campus Community Garden (CCCG) is to improve UNC's lowest paid employees' access to fresh fruits and vegetables by distributing the garden's crops, which are produced by the shared efforts of staff, students, faculty, and local residents; and to serve as a learning community for developing gardening skills ...
Cabell, Anne   +4 more
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The Community Garden as a Tool for Community Empowerment: A Study of Community Gardens in Hampden County

2009
The purpose of this study is to gain a better understanding of how community gardens can catalyze positive change in an urban environment, to determine and catalog the impacts, and to learn about their importance to small-scale agricultural production. The study surveyed neighbors of the two umbrella organizations community gardens, The Nuestras Raices
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