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Growing intimate privatepublics: Everyday utopia in the naturecultures of a young lesbian and bisexual women’s allotment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The Young Women’s Group in Manchester is a ‘young women’s peer health project, run by and for young lesbian and bisexual women’, which runs an allotment as one of its activities.
Church, Andrew   +5 more
core   +4 more sources

The Surprising History and Geography of the First "Organic Farming" Association [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Readers of narratives of the history of organic farming in Australia will be familiar with such accounts beginning in the "1980s". In questing after the earliest organic farming society, and more particularly in pursuing the spread of the "organic" meme
Paull, John
core  

Products from Urban Collective Gardens: Food for Thought or for Consumption? Insights from Paris and Montreal

open access: yesJournal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016
Among the various forms of urban agriculture that have emerged and been developed over the past 15 years in countries of the global North, collective gardens (CGs) are one of the most significant.
Jeanne Pourais   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The urban gardens in South Tyrol (IT): spatial distribution and some considerations about their role on mitigating the effects of ageing and urbanization

open access: yesRegional Studies, Regional Science, 2020
Interest in urban gardening is growing as a means of enhancing social contact and reusing urban spaces. This practice in fact has positive effects in social and environmental terms.
Valentina Cattivelli
doaj   +1 more source

"Whose gardens? Our gardens!" Defending urban gardens against urban development – an interview with garden activists"

open access: yes, 2023
This interview with individuals involved in defending the Jardin des Vaîtes (Besançon) and the Jardin des Vertus (Aubervilliers) against large-scale developments examines the nature of the political struggles that emerge from urban gardens in France today.
Adam, Matthieu   +5 more
openaire   +1 more source

A bundle of sticks in my garden [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The English law of property is often described as a ‘bundle of sticks’ in which each ‘stick’ represents a particular right. Gardens challenge these rights and wreak havoc on the ‘bundle of sticks’.
Farran, Sue
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The role of urban gardening in building city resilience to climate change

open access: yesEconomics and Environment, 2020
This article has two purposes. The first is to show the role that urban gardening can play in building city resilience to various negative impacts resulting from changes in the economic and social spheres and connection with global warming.
Malgorzata Burchard
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Bisinis belong olgeta mere long Honiara, Solomon Islands = Informal activities of the women of Honiara, Solomon Islands : 31.798 research project presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the Degree of Master of Philosophy in Development Studies at Massey University [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Solomon Islands' women in the Urban Informal Sector (UIS) seem to be invisible to the policy makers both from the perspective of their contribution and their needs. Although government programs aim at assisting small scale entrepreneurs, women as a group
Fakaia, Matthew
core  

Study protocol: can a school gardening intervention improve children's diets? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
BACKGROUND: The current academic literature suggests there is a potential for using gardening as a tool to improve children's fruit and vegetable intake.
A Demas   +50 more
core   +2 more sources

Urban Gardening in Germany: Cultivating a Sustainable Lifestyle for the Societal Transition to a Bioeconomy

open access: yesSustainability, 2019
Urban gardening has the potential to turn the growing number of consumers into conscious producers by raising awareness of natural resource cycles, contributing to environmental conservation and climate change mitigation.
Bastian Winkler   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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