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Relationship between Community or Home Gardening and Health of the Elderly: A Web-Based Cross-Sectional Survey in Japan [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019 Machida D.
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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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Humanities & 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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Canadian 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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Daily home gardening improved survival for older people with mobility limitations: an 11-year follow-up study in Taiwan. [PDF]
Clin Interv Aging, 2016 Chhian Hūi Lêng,1,2 Jung-Der Wang3–5 1Institute of Allied Health Sciences, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, 2School of Medical Sociology and Social Work, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, 3Department of ...
Lêng CH, Wang JD.
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Allotment gardening and health: a comparative survey among allotment gardeners and their neighbors without an allotment [PDF]
, 2010 Background The potential contribution of allotment gardens to a healthy and active life-style is increasingly recognized, especially for elderly populations. However, few studies have empirically examined beneficial effects of allotment gardening. In the
van Dillen Sonja ME +15 more
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Consuming gardens: Representations of paradise, nostalgia and postmodernism [PDF]
, 2003 This paper unravels the types of relationships people have with their gardens. This is achieved through a review of previous literature on the topic, coupled with a theoretical contextualisation which utilises postmodern concepts, notably that of Jameson'
Hewer, P.A.
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International Journal on Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources, 2023 A healthy lifestyle and illness prevention depend on adequate nutrition, and homestead food production, including home gardening, is one way to increase access and lower the cost of healthy foods. This study was carried out in Odeda Local Government Area
Jumoke Georgina ILO +2 more
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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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Mass Spectrometry in the Home and Garden [PDF]
Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 2014 Identification of active components in a variety of chemical products used directly by consumers is described at both trace and bulk levels using mass spectrometry. The combination of external ambient ionization with a portable mass spectrometer capable of tandem mass spectrometry provides high chemical specificity and sensitivity as well as allowing ...
Pulliam, Christopher J. +4 more
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