History
Can be urban, suburban, or rural and grow flowers or vegetables
What is a Community Garden?
Occurs when the body is not getting enough nutrients such as vitamins and minerals.
What is nutrient deficiency?
Environmental degradation (both social and physical) has been shown to aggregate physical illness, disease and mental distress
What is poor health and wellbeing?
Projected to be one of the most extensive population health issues and current trends, such as the increase in factors such as loneliness and poor social contact, will further exacerbate this situation
What is poor mental health?
Plants that germinate, flower, set seed, and die all in one season.
What are annuals?
Refers to food production in urban areas, whether it is for personal consumption, commercial sale, education or therapy.
What is urban agriculture?
Poor nutrition and obesity are more prevalent in these neighbourhoods?
What are low-income neighbourhoods?
Social entities and their abilities to tolerate, absorb, cope with and adjust to environmental and social threats of various kinds
What is social resilience?
Geographic areas where access to affordable, healthy food options (aka fresh fruits and veggies) is limited or nonexistent because grocery stores are too far away.
What are food Deserts?
Community Gardens can increase the variety of life on Earth at all its levels, from genes to ecosystems, and can encompass the evolutionary, ecological, and cultural processes that sustain life.
What is biodiversity?
Areas where there is low accessibility to nutritious foods
What are food deserts?
Gardens in urban areas are positively correlated with decreased rates of actions that constitutes as an offense.
What are crime rates?
During this time, concerns about urban decay, food quality, and community breakdown also promoted the resurgence of this topic
What are the 1960's to 1970's?
Community gardens can improve this small area within a climate zone where the climate is slightly different from the zones predictions.
What is a microclimate?
Having, at all times, both physical and economic access to sufficient food to meet dietary needs for a productive and healthy life.
What is food security?
The consequences of this type of land are decreased property values, drug use, and the illegal dumping of litter, tires and chemicals
What is vacant land?
These were vegetable, fruit, and herb gardens planted at private residences and public parks in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Germany during World War I and World War II.
What are victory gardens?
Distance food is transported from the time of its making until it reaches the consumer.
What are food miles?
Time spent in THESE areas (not associated with specific institutions) are proposed to decrease stress by increasing the therapeutic nature of the activities
What are neutral spaces?
During Covid-19, Community Gardens proved as a strategies used to reduce unpleasant emotions for individuals who are experiencing a loss of connection and/or isolation.
What is coping?