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During COVID-19, Californians sought food security, connection and solace in their gardens

California 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, Summer Cortez, Pauline Marsh, Jonathan Kingsley, Monika Egerer, Brenda Lin, Alessandro Ossola   +6 more
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“You feel like you’re part of something bigger”: exploring motivations for community garden participation in Melbourne, Australia

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background Increased global urbanisation has led to public health challenges. Community gardens are identified as a mechanism for addressing socio-ecological determinants of health.
Jonathan Kingsley, Emily Foenander, Aisling Bailey   +2 more
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Gardening and age-related weight gain: Results from a cross-sectional survey of Denver residents

Preventive Medicine Reports, 2017
This study examined whether gardening modifies the association between age and body mass index (BMI). We used data from the Neighborhood Environments and Health Survey, which was conducted in Denver (N=469) between 2006 and 2007.
Jill S. Litt, Jeffrey Richard Lambert, Deborah H. Glueck   +2 more
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Community gardening during times of crisis

Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2020
Using ongoing reflections from our recent work as members of a community gardening initiative, we outline relevant priorities for researchers, policy­makers, and community practitioners to examine the role of community gardens in addressing the effects ...
Angie Mejia, Manami Bhattacharya, Amanda Nigon-Crowley, Kelly Kirkpatrick, Chandi Katoch   +4 more
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Community Gardens

Academic publishing as a joint ...
Evin Dalkilic, Marcel Wrzesinski
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Building community through communal gardening

Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development
Introduction Capitol View Communal Garden and Orchard (CVCGO) is a communal garden founded in 2022 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The garden sits on a previously unutilized one-third acre (.13 hectare) city park accessed through a lease agreement with the
Gabriel Salah-Pfeiffer
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"It's Good for the Human Soul": Community Gardening as a Pathway to Civic Action

Journal of Agricultural Education
In this study, the author investigates the relationship between community gardening and civic action among undergraduate students through student interviews and narrative analyses utilizing an experiential learning theoretical framework.
Chrissy Pfeil
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Citizen Science and Urban Home Gardeners’ Attitudes Toward Gardening

HortTechnology
Citizen science is a participatory research method that enlists community members as scientists to collect data at a scale that would not be possible for researchers on their own and in research contexts that are difficult for researchers to reach ...
Catherine G. Campbell, Daniela Perez Lugones, Celina Gomez   +2 more
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Temporal Dynamics and Motivations for Urban Community Food Gardens in Medium-Sized Towns of the Eastern Cape, South Africa

Land, 2018
Urban agriculture is said to be increasing with global urbanization. However, there is little examination of the temporal or spatial dynamics of urban agriculture.
Sky Roberts, Charlie Shackleton
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Watering for Community Gardens [PDF]

2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference Proceedings, 2021
The University of Indianapolis (UIndy) has partnered with the Community Health Network (CHNw) to address the food insecurity related issues among the residents of the South Indy Quality of Life Plan (SoIndy) in two community organic gardens. The goal of the Watering for Community Gardens project is to design and construct a watering system for the ...
George Ricco, Md Rashedul Sarker, Sean Werling, Megan Marshall, Thomas Crowel, Mayron Reyes Esposito, Emron Abusnaneh   +6 more
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