that neighborhoods that have poor access to supermarkets also tend to have limited access to community gardens.
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Community gardens: sustainability, health and inclusion in the city.: EBSCOhost - 0 views
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'issues of food security, the use of biotechnology and artificial chemicals in agriculture, rising food prices and the environmental costs of growing and distributing food, the different functions of community gardens are coming under increasing attention" (para. 1) Community gardens are becoming very popular because of cost of fresh foods sold in grocery store are too expensive for most people who live in urban cities. Gardens have become an alternate method to producing nutritious and safe food.
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Can community gardens and farmers' markets relieve food desert problems? A study of Edm... - 0 views
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Even though the goal of gardens it to provide healthy, nutritious and fresh food for people who live in neighborhoods that are food desert, the location of the community garden can not be access by all that need it.
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The term “food desert” has frequently been used to describe situations in which consumers lack access to affordable nutritious food, typically a populated low-income area with limited access to full-service supermarkets
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Food desert is referred to as low income communities in which its people don't have easy accessibility to healthy and fresh food to grocery stores.
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considered low income and high population density as indicators of high need. In addition, we introduced low car access as an indicator of the challenge of getting access to healthy food.
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http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/15575330809489660 - 0 views
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'It provides opportunities for everyone involved to develop skills in leadership, community organizing, cultural competency, program planning, implementation, and evaluation" (para. 3) Having community gardens helps community member to interact with each other. It builds relationship among neighbors and also help individual develop skills like leadership, interpersonal and working in teams. Also it helps individual learn about different culture. Also it becomes a network.
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"addressing the need of green spaces and appearance; and decreased crime in urban neighborhoods" (para. 1) Research have shown that urban agriculture can help reduce crime rates within urban communities because people become familiar with each other and strangers and people new society.
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"the public health benefits of urban agriculture as providing food security, personal Wellness, community betterment, and environmental health" "provide a more livable physical environment through control of temperature, noise and pollution; create a positive community image" (para. 2) Community garden is more than a piece of land or space that provides foods. In addition to it providing food security it also provides fresh and healthy food for people who live in urban cities. It can also help create a healthy environment because plants filter the air which will reduce air pollution
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Growing Community Across the U.S. and Canada | American Community Garden Association - 1 views
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The Mission of the American Community Gardening Association is to build community by increasing and enhancing community gardening and greening across the United States and Canada.
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