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Aziz Baameur - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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vegetable output and cost savings of Community Gardens in san jose california
Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 2014Co-Authors: Susan J Algert, Aziz Baameur, Marian J RenvallAbstract:Urban dwellers across the United States increasingly access a variety of fresh vegetables through participation in neighborhood-level Community Gardens. Here we document vegetable output and cost savings of Community Gardens in the city of San Jose, CA, to better understand the capacity of Community Gardens to affect food affordability in an urban setting. A convenience sample of 83 Community gardeners in San Jose completed a background survey during spring and summer 2012. On average, gardeners were aged 57 years and had a monthly income of $4,900; 25% had completed college. A representative subset of 10 gardeners was recruited to weigh vegetable output of their plots using portable electronic scales at three separate garden sites. Accuracy of each portable scale was verified by comparing the weight of a sample vegetable to weights obtained using a lab scale precise to 0.2 oz. Garden yields and cost savings were tabulated overall for each plot. Results indicate that Community garden practices are more similar to biointensive high-production farming, producing 0.75 lb vegetables/sq ft, rather than conventional agricultural practices, producing 0.60 lb/sq ft. Gardens produced on average 2.55 lb/plant and saved $435 per plot for the season. Results indicate that cost savings are greatest if vertical high value crops such as tomatoes and peppers are grown in Community Gardens, although yields depend on growing conditions, gardener's skill, availability of water, and other factors. Future research is needed to document cost savings and yields for specific crops grown in Community Gardens.
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The FASEB Journal, 2014Co-Authors: Susan J Algert, Aziz BaameurAbstract:The food to feed five billion urban people by 2025 will increasingly be grown within cities themselves, emphasizing the need to allocate more land to Community Gardens as a source of local fresh produce. This study describes an easy and reliable method Community gardeners can use to quantify crop yields and track cost savings associated with their Gardens. A convenience sample of 83 Community gardeners in San Jose, California, completed a background survey in Spring-Summer of 2012. On average, the gardener’s age was 57, income was $4,900.00 per month, and 25% had completed college. A representative subset of 10 gardeners weighed produce output of their plots using portable electronic scales at three separate garden sites. Yields and cost savings were tabulated overall for each plot and crop type. The quantity of vegetables grown in excess of what was needed for each household to meet the US Dietary Guidelines was calculated for the four month growing season. Results indicate that Community garden practice...
Susan J Algert - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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vegetable output and cost savings of Community Gardens in san jose california
Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 2014Co-Authors: Susan J Algert, Aziz Baameur, Marian J RenvallAbstract:Urban dwellers across the United States increasingly access a variety of fresh vegetables through participation in neighborhood-level Community Gardens. Here we document vegetable output and cost savings of Community Gardens in the city of San Jose, CA, to better understand the capacity of Community Gardens to affect food affordability in an urban setting. A convenience sample of 83 Community gardeners in San Jose completed a background survey during spring and summer 2012. On average, gardeners were aged 57 years and had a monthly income of $4,900; 25% had completed college. A representative subset of 10 gardeners was recruited to weigh vegetable output of their plots using portable electronic scales at three separate garden sites. Accuracy of each portable scale was verified by comparing the weight of a sample vegetable to weights obtained using a lab scale precise to 0.2 oz. Garden yields and cost savings were tabulated overall for each plot. Results indicate that Community garden practices are more similar to biointensive high-production farming, producing 0.75 lb vegetables/sq ft, rather than conventional agricultural practices, producing 0.60 lb/sq ft. Gardens produced on average 2.55 lb/plant and saved $435 per plot for the season. Results indicate that cost savings are greatest if vertical high value crops such as tomatoes and peppers are grown in Community Gardens, although yields depend on growing conditions, gardener's skill, availability of water, and other factors. Future research is needed to document cost savings and yields for specific crops grown in Community Gardens.
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output and cost savings of Community Gardens in san jose california 132 7
The FASEB Journal, 2014Co-Authors: Susan J Algert, Aziz BaameurAbstract:The food to feed five billion urban people by 2025 will increasingly be grown within cities themselves, emphasizing the need to allocate more land to Community Gardens as a source of local fresh produce. This study describes an easy and reliable method Community gardeners can use to quantify crop yields and track cost savings associated with their Gardens. A convenience sample of 83 Community gardeners in San Jose, California, completed a background survey in Spring-Summer of 2012. On average, the gardener’s age was 57, income was $4,900.00 per month, and 25% had completed college. A representative subset of 10 gardeners weighed produce output of their plots using portable electronic scales at three separate garden sites. Yields and cost savings were tabulated overall for each plot and crop type. The quantity of vegetables grown in excess of what was needed for each household to meet the US Dietary Guidelines was calculated for the four month growing season. Results indicate that Community garden practice...
Aletta Bonn - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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ecosystem services of allotment and Community Gardens a leipzig germany case study
Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2017Co-Authors: Ines Cabral, Jessica Keim, Rolf A Engelmann, Roland Kraemer, Julia Siebert, Aletta BonnAbstract:Abstract Allotment Gardens and Community Gardens provide important ecosystem services to urban communities, such as local climate and water regulation, as well as habitat provision for biodiversity. Using the city of Leipzig as a case study, we assess the effect of urban gardening type and intensity of management on ecosystem services and biodiversity by comparing allotment and Community Gardens. Employing a stratified sampling design, we assessed 30 allotment plots of different management intensity, including vacant plots, and six adjacent Community Gardens along a gradient of urbanity, using in-depth field surveys, remote sensing analyses and interviews. Our results show a bimodal relationship of overall vascular plant species richness with management intensity with highest species richness in medium intensively-managed plots, as they provide space for both cultivated edible and ornamental species as well as native, spontaneous species. In comparison to allotment Gardens, Community Gardens provide a higher ratio of permeable soil surface and a slightly higher microbial soil activity, implying important differences in water regulation and nutrient cycling properties. With regard to climate regulation, old mature trees make a considerable contribution to above ground carbon storage, but are largely restricted to communal areas of the allotment estates due to code regulation. Based on our results, we discuss the impact of allotment gardening association codes and garden type and ways forward for gardeners and urban planners to promote biodiversity and ecosystem services provision.
Bethaney Turner - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Community Gardens sustainability health and inclusion in the city
Local Environment, 2011Co-Authors: Bethaney Turner, Joanna Henryks, David PearsonAbstract:Food-producing Community Gardens have taken various forms over the past two centuries and have fulfilled a variety of roles. As we grapple with 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. This issue of Local Environment is based on papers first delivered at a National Community Garden Conference in Canberra, Australia. The range of papers explores the key themes that emerged from the conference and deepens our knowledge of Community Gardens in both theory and practice. In particular, conference participants addressed various aspects of Community gardening that centred on issues of sustainability, health and inclusion for urban dwellers.
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Embodied connections: sustainability, food systems and Community Gardens
Local Environment, 2011Co-Authors: Bethaney TurnerAbstract:Community Gardens have been identified as providing a model for promoting sustainable urban living. They can also contribute to individual and Community reconnection to the socio-cultural importance of food, thus helping facilitate broader engagement with the food system. Such processes may offer pathways to developing a deep engagement and long-term commitment to sustainable living practices predicated on the development of new forms of environmental or ecological citizenship. However, little attention has been paid to how this can be adequately harnessed. Based on an ethnographic study of Community gardeners in the Australian Capital Territory, this article argues that fostering an embodied form of sustainability, which accounts for individual embodied engagement in these collective spaces, may play a critical role in achieving these outcomes.
Alec Thornton - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the lucky country a critical exploration of Community Gardens and city Community relations in australian cities
Local Environment, 2017Co-Authors: Alec ThorntonAbstract:ABSTRACTUrban agriculture (UA) has the potential to expand beyond the grassroots level to meet the social, cultural, economic and food needs of urban dwellers. At its core, UA represents an alternative use of urban space that occurs with or without government support or approval. The experiences of Community gardeners and their views of, and engagement in, Community Gardens as a form of UA, or local “alternative food networks”, is a focal point of this paper. Relying on Australian city case studies, this paper explores Community Gardens, using critical urban approaches concerning “rights to the city” and diverse economies. Findings from this study reveal how Community gardeners understand and participate in diverse economies and extended local food networks. They also identify respondents’ views of local councils as barriers to the emergence of Community Gardens, and other forms of UA, as a local response to growing concerns over impacts of the global food chain on food security. In contrast to other West...