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Developing 'community' in community gardens.: EBSCOhost - 0 views

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      sconzy on 12 Oct 14
       
      "community gardens have positive community building outcomes, creating a variety of benefits for both individuals and communities" (p. 555 para. 1) Community gardens does not benefit just an individual because of the food it brings forth but also helps make a better community. It increases social capital with the community, skills and training. 
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      sconzy on 12 Oct 14
       
      Activities such as growing, cooking and eating of food are all sociable and allow people of all ages, ethnicity and socio-economic backgrounds s to interact informally" (p. 565, para 1)  Urban gardening can bring people from various cultures and social circumstances together. It promotes a sense of unity and togetherness among people that live in urban environments.
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      sconzy on 12 Oct 14
       
      " The local health authority valued the community  garden as a health promotion resource" (p. 564 para. 2) Community garden does not only produce fresh and nutritious but also help reduce stresses that can impact people' s health.
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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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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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  • that neighborhoods that have poor access to supermarkets also tend to have limited access to community gardens.
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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.
  • 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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      sconzy on 12 Oct 14
       
      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.
  • 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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  • Our results for the case of Edmonton show that community gardens and farmers' markets can help increase fresh food access and relieve food desert problems to a certain extent
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Actors and networks in urban community garden development - 1 views

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  • Harambee gardens have developed and survived through network connections between garden participants and external actors.
  • Connection to larger organizations also provides access to knowledge and information about processes of obtaining permits and applying for grants.
  • Examining the role of social networks in community garden development is important precisely because social networks contain power dynamics.
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  • s we will demonstrate, although networks enable Harambee community garden development, networks formed between citizen groups and other actors also contain unequal power relations and conflicts that can constrain the activities of community garden groups.
  • In gardens managed by Groundwork, groups of citizen volunteer organizers are responsible for regular maintenance and decision-making
  • State disapproval of green space often takes on racialized or classist implications, as the state may promote certain kinds of space at the expense of others, in ways that conscribe what kinds of people belong or do not belong in public space or what forms of public space are legitimate
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