Community gardens are collective projects in which participants collaborate to maintain a
garden. They provide many biophysical and cultural ecosystem services, contributing to …

Using ongoing reflections from our recent work as members of a community gardening
initiative, we outline relevant priorities for researchers, policymakers, and community …

For quite some time, food systems scholars, public health workers, and food justice activists
have recognized structural problems in the global food system that can cause food insecurity …

Urban green spaces, like community gardens, received increased attention during the
COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing from an ethnographic study on participating in community …

A Burst in Green Spaces during the Pandemic since the covid-19 pandemicbegan, there has
been a remarkable increase of interest in community and home gardening. We interrogate …

The COVID-19 pandemic has severely disrupted social life. Gardens and yards have
seemingly risen as a lifeline during the pandemic. Here, we investigated the relationship …

Purpose Urban community gardens (UCGs) are important sources of community, food and
greenspaces in urban environments. Though UCGs in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) of …

ABSTRACT A recurring debate in cities and in the literature is whether gardening food to eat
is essential or recreational. When the COVID-19 pandemic began, some political …

There is a significant amount of evidence highlighting the health, wellbeing and social
benefits of gardening during previous periods of crises. These benefits were also evident …

Gardening has the potential to improve health and wellbeing, especially during crises. Using
an international survey of gardeners (n= 3743), this study aimed to understand everyday …