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Seeds and the city: a review of municipal home food gardening programs in Canada in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, home food gardening articles have saturated popular media outlets. Home food gardening is more popular than ever, and community gardens and community greenhouses are at capacity with long waiting lists for plots. Several local governments across the co...
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Palgrave Macmillan UK
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9381390/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35990764 http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01301-6 |
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author | Music, Janet Mullins, Lisa Charlebois, Sylvain Large, Charlotte Mayhew, Kydra |
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description | In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, home food gardening articles have saturated popular media outlets. Home food gardening is more popular than ever, and community gardens and community greenhouses are at capacity with long waiting lists for plots. Several local governments across the country are also participating in the food gardening craze. This study compares 19 municipal urban home food gardening programs that ran in 2020. These municipalities provided program participants with free gardening supplies and instructions on how to grow food at home. This study reveals a complicated relationship among municipalities, food gardening programs and household and community food security. The study also determines that the social and emotional challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic are somewhat alleviated through gardening. Ultimately, municipalities are limited in their policy capacities to adequately move the needle on food insecurity in Canada. |
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spelling | pubmed-93813902022-08-17 Seeds and the city: a review of municipal home food gardening programs in Canada in response to the COVID-19 pandemic Music, Janet Mullins, Lisa Charlebois, Sylvain Large, Charlotte Mayhew, Kydra Humanit Soc Sci Commun Article In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, home food gardening articles have saturated popular media outlets. Home food gardening is more popular than ever, and community gardens and community greenhouses are at capacity with long waiting lists for plots. Several local governments across the country are also participating in the food gardening craze. This study compares 19 municipal urban home food gardening programs that ran in 2020. These municipalities provided program participants with free gardening supplies and instructions on how to grow food at home. This study reveals a complicated relationship among municipalities, food gardening programs and household and community food security. The study also determines that the social and emotional challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic are somewhat alleviated through gardening. Ultimately, municipalities are limited in their policy capacities to adequately move the needle on food insecurity in Canada. Palgrave Macmillan UK 2022-08-17 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9381390/ /pubmed/35990764 http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01301-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Music, Janet Mullins, Lisa Charlebois, Sylvain Large, Charlotte Mayhew, Kydra Seeds and the city: a review of municipal home food gardening programs in Canada in response to the COVID-19 pandemic |
title | Seeds and the city: a review of municipal home food gardening programs in Canada in response to the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full | Seeds and the city: a review of municipal home food gardening programs in Canada in response to the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_fullStr | Seeds and the city: a review of municipal home food gardening programs in Canada in response to the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Seeds and the city: a review of municipal home food gardening programs in Canada in response to the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_short | Seeds and the city: a review of municipal home food gardening programs in Canada in response to the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_sort | seeds and the city: a review of municipal home food gardening programs in canada in response to the covid-19 pandemic |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9381390/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35990764 http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01301-6 |
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