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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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Growing public spaces in the city: Community gardening and the making of new urban environments of publicness

Urban studies, 2021
The demise of public space in cities across the Global North has received considerable scrutiny from urban scholars in recent years, with accounts of the loss, privatisation and increased regulation of public space prevalent within the academic ...
P. Milbourne
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Community Gardening in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods in Phoenix, Arizona: Aligning Programs with Perceptions

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, Carolyn Crouch, Sharon L. Harlan   +2 more
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Community Gardens: A Catalyst for Community Change

Health Promotion Practice, 2023
Community gardens are increasing in popularity and are associated with extensive physical and mental health benefits, increased access to fresh produce, and increased social connections. However, evidence is primarily from research in urban and school settings, and little is known about the role of community gardens in rural settings as part of policy,
Alison C. Berg, Heather M. Padilla, Catherine E. Sanders, Christina T. Garner, Hannah G. Southall, Grace Holmes, Shanda Ashley, Luke Crosson, Barbara Twilley, Denise D. Everson, Rachel Hubbard, Courtney S. Brown, Alexa J. Lamm, Laura P. Johnson, Marsha Davis   +14 more
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Planting seeds of community-engaged pedagogy: Community health nursing practice in an intergenerational campus-community gardening program.

Nurse Education in Practice, 2021
As part of a participatory action research (PAR) study, nursing student participants collaborated with faculty, along with older adults, people with mixed abilities, and preschool aged children in order to 'sow the seeds of social change' and grow a ...
S. Jakubec, Joanna Szabo, J. Gleeson, Genevieve Currie, Sonya Flessati   +4 more
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Transforming urban bioresources through community gardening in Public Housing, Kuala Lumpur [PDF]

BIO 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, Mohamad Selamat Izyan Ayuni, Ujang Norsidah   +2 more
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Designing a Community Garden

idea journal, 2018
Politecnico di Milano Coltivando is a convivial garden where people meet, experiment, cultivate crops and share their skills and ideas. Coltivando uses innovative service and spatial design knowledge and community consultation processes. Coltivando is a design research project that is documented throughout its entire process.
FASSI, DAVIDE, SACHERO, ALESSANDRO, SIMEONE, GIULIA   +2 more
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Rediscovering community: Interethnic relationships and community gardening

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, Julie Wallach, Eduardo Sanchez   +2 more
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Multispecies community gardening: Inquiring material-discursive anthropocentrism through a Roman gardening experience

Textes & 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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What Gardens Grow

Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2018
Supporting home and community gardening is a core activity of many community-based organiza­tions (CBOs) that are leading the food justice movement in the U.S.
Christine M. Porter
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