Cultivating affects: A feminist posthumanist analysis of invertebrate and human performativity in an urban community garden

Community gardens are pieces of land where groups of people grow and maintain vegetable and flower plants. They exist in all types of areas, including neighborhoods, at schools, or on other public or private lands. Community gardens grow food for local consumption or sale and can also be used for teaching gardening and other skills This 7-page fact sheet provides a guide to individuals or groups interested in starting urban community gardens and includes information about how to identify garden sites, build partnerships, engage community members, and develop a project overview. Written by Austen Moore, Amy Harder, and Norma Samuel, and published by the UF Department of Agricultural Education and Communication, March 2013. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/wc139

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Heavy Metal Contamination Levels in Vegetables Grown in an Urban Community Garden in the Northeast USA: A Preliminary Study

Food Studies An Interdisciplinary Journal ◽

10.18848/2160-1933/cgp/v03i03/40582 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

pp. 77-87

Author(s):

Sushant Singh ◽

Charles Feldman ◽

Shahla Wunderlich

Keyword(s):

Heavy Metal ◽

Metal Contamination ◽

Heavy Metal Contamination ◽

Urban Community ◽

Community Garden ◽

Preliminary Study ◽

Northeast Usa ◽

Contamination Levels

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Health risk assessment of some heavy metals in urban community garden soils of Baghdad City, Iraq

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment An International Journal ◽

10.1080/10807039.2016.1238301 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 23 (2) ◽

pp. 225-240 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Emad A. Mohammed Salah Al-Heety ◽

Kadhim H. Yassin ◽

Safa Abd-Alsalaam

Keyword(s):

Heavy Metals ◽

Risk Assessment ◽

Health Risk ◽

Health Risk Assessment ◽

Urban Community ◽

Community Garden

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Case study on the soil antibiotic resistome in an urban community garden

International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents ◽

10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2018.05.016 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 52 (2) ◽

pp. 241-250 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Abdullah Ibn Mafiz ◽

Liyanage Nirasha Perera ◽

Yingshu He ◽

Wei Zhang ◽

Shujie Xiao ◽

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Keyword(s):

Urban Community ◽

Community Garden

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Placemaking in Action: Factors That Support or Obstruct the Development of Urban Community Gardens

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12020657 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 657 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Andreas Wesener ◽

Runrid Fox-Kämper ◽

Martin Sondermann ◽

Daniel Münderlein

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Urban Community ◽

Community Gardens ◽

Cultural Factors ◽

Social Constructionist ◽

Community Garden ◽

Material Base ◽

Category System ◽

Constructionist Approach ◽

Urban Community Gardens

The paper examines factors that support or obstruct the development of urban community garden projects. It combines a systematic scholarly literature review with empirical research from case studies located in New Zealand and Germany. The findings are discussed against the backdrop of placemaking processes: urban community gardens are valuable platforms to observe space-to-place transformations. Following a social-constructionist approach, literature-informed enablers and barriers for the development of urban community gardens are analysed against perceived notions informed by local interviewees with regard to their biophysical and technical, socio-cultural and economic, and political and administrative dimensions. These dimensions are incorporated into a systematic and comprehensive category system. This approach helps observe how the essential biophysical-material base of the projects is overlaid with socio-cultural factors and shaped by governmental or administrative regulations. Perceptual differences become evident and are discussed through the lens of different actors.

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Aroma-Home’s edible stories: An urban community garden performs

Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems ◽

10.1017/s174217051700028x ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 33 (6) ◽

pp. 542-547

Author(s):

Susan Haedicke

Keyword(s):

Urban Landscape ◽

Cultural Practices ◽

Urban Community ◽

Public Spaces ◽

Community Garden ◽

Construction Site ◽

Story Telling ◽

Place Making ◽

Art Making ◽

Natural Beauty

AbstractAroma-Home, an artist-initiated community garden in Villetaneuse, just outside Paris, France, originated as a way to poeticize damaged urban locations by creating small communally-created pockets of unexpected natural beauty. In 2013, Sarah Harper of Friches Théâtre Urbain joined forces with local inhabitants to reclaim public spaces marred by construction and neglect. Together, they began to alter the urban landscape with whimsical plant-based interventions that sprouted up behind construction fences. This guerrilla gardening soon led to the sowing of a community garden that wove together food-growing, story-telling and place-making and fashioned its particular identity through cultural practices around growing, preparing and sharing food of the multi-ethnic participants. The horticultural-culinary conversations became inextricably connected to gardening activities: edible stories involving food memories and horticultural skills that nourished those who prepared and consumed them. This ‘From the Field’ paper looks at how the community garden/art-making processes of Aroma-Home transformed a bleak construction site into a mini-urban agricultural ‘commons’ where imagining, planting and harvesting the garden and its edible stories were all shared.

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BY THE RECONSTRUCTION OF URBAN COMMUNITY GARDEN

URBAN CONSTRUCTION AND ARCHITECTURE ◽

10.17673/vestnik.2016.01.11 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 68-74

Author(s):

Lyudmila Igorevna IVANOVA ◽

Denis Vladimirovich LITVINOV

Keyword(s):

Urban Community ◽

Landscape Design ◽

Comprehensive Analysis ◽

Community Garden ◽

Public Gardens ◽

Foreign Experience ◽

The City

The paper considers foreign experience of landscape design and reconstruction of Pocket parks and gives examples of existing urban public gardens of Samara and their comprehensive analysis, introduces principles of reconstruction. Particular att ention is paid to style and image peculiarities of small urban community garden, depending on their size, functional use and location in the structure of the city.

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