Evaluating the effectiveness of community gardens by a quantitative systematic framework: a study of Saint Louis, Missouri in the United States

2022 ◽  
pp. 103676
Author(s):  
Jiesi Wang ◽  
Guanting Zhang ◽  
Xukai Zhao ◽  
Leilei Sun ◽  
Yongfa Wu
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Community Gardens ◽  
The United States ◽  
Saint Louis ◽  
Systematic Framework

The Impact of Ngos in Saint-Louis De Gonzague Camp, Haiti

2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 20-22
Author(s):  
Sandy Nelzy
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Great Opportunity ◽  
Saint Louis ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Impact ◽  
First Time ◽  
Great Step

A long time ago, Haiti was known as beautiful, rich in minerals, and a beacon of freedom, where slaves gained their independence. But now, Haiti is known as "the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere." Born and raised in Haiti, I came to the United States for the first time in 1998, and for five years I kept traveling back and forth until my father decided I would be a United States resident in 2003. I have always wanted to help my country, and I knew that living in the United States would be a great step forward. So when I found out about the ethnographic research organized by Dr. Schuller after the earthquake in Haiti, I knew instantly that I was interested in going. I knew that it would be a great opportunity for me to develop skills that would help resolve Haiti's problems in one way or another. I tried preparing myself emotionally to face the difficulties and the heartaches with which I would deal.

Agriculture-based community engagement in rural libraries

2021 ◽  
pp. 096100062110157
Author(s):  
Vandana Singh ◽  
Bharat Mehra ◽  
Everett Scott Sikes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Community Gardens ◽  
The United States ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Farmers Market ◽  
Library Community ◽  
Rural Libraries

Community engagement in rural libraries receives little focus and is an overlooked area of research. In this article, we report exemplars of agriculture-based community engagement in rural and Southern and Central Appalachian region of the United States. An online survey of rural library professionals demonstrates the positive impact of agriculture-based engagement activities on the overall community-engagement initiatives in this region. This article synthesizes eight distinct agriculture-based initiatives with many subprojects, lists an inventory of stakeholders involved in agriculture-based community-engagement initiatives, and highlights the challenges faced by the rural libraries. Three successful examples, namely, seed library, community gardens, and farmers’ market initiatives, are presented with details to help other libraries adopt these successful community-engagement initiatives. The results show that rural libraries are very creative with their limited resources and they hit many areas of impact in the community through their community-engagement activities.

scholarly journals Perspectives on Heavy Metal Soil Testing Among Community Gardeners in the United States: A Mixed Methods Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (13) ◽  
pp. 2350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Candis M. Hunter ◽  
Dana H. Z. Williamson ◽  
Matthew O. Gribble ◽  
Halle Bradshaw ◽  
Melanie Pearson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Heavy Metal ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Community Gardens ◽  
The United States ◽  
Soil Testing ◽  
Community Garden ◽  
Perceived Behavioral Control

Community gardens offer numerous benefits, but there are also potential risks from exposure to chemical contaminants in the soil. Through the lens of the Theory of Planned Behavior, this mixed methods study examined community gardeners’ beliefs and intentions to conduct heavy metal soil testing. The qualitative component involved five focus groups of community garden leaders in Atlanta, Georgia. Qualitative analysis of the focus group data revealed that heavy metal soil contamination was not frequently identified as a common gardening hazard and several barriers limited soil testing in community gardens. The focus group results informed the development of a questionnaire that was administered to 500 community gardeners across the United States. Logistic regression analysis revealed that the soil testing intention was associated with attitude (aOR = 2.46, 95% CI: 1.34, 4.53), subjective norms (aOR = 3.39 95% CI: 2.07, 5.57), and perceived behavioral control (aOR = 1.81, 95% CI: 1.10, 2.99). Study findings have implications for interventions involving community garden risk mitigation, particularly gardens that engage children and vulnerable populations.

scholarly journals Urban Farming: Localizing Narratives

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayad Rahmani ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Community Gardens ◽  
The United States ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Short Paper ◽  
Urban Farming ◽  
Slow Food

This paper will look at the historical and contemporary narratives behind urban farming. It will start with the transcendentalists (for this short paper limited to Thoreau) and their manner of seeing in the return to the land the capacity for social reform, and end with an examination of the ideas that have not only blurred the distinction between the urban and the rural, but that in doing so have spawned a new awareness and appreciation in local culture, including local food and slow food movements. Today community gardens across the United States are busy forging relations with nearby outfits, including restaurants and schools, serving as stewards of social, economic and intellectual growth.

If We Can’t Go with the South Let Us Quit the North

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The United States ◽  
Critical Interval ◽  
The South ◽  
Saint Louis ◽  
The North ◽  
Secession Crisis ◽  
Fort Sumter ◽  
Border State

This chapter tracks the course of the Border South during a critical interval in the secession crisis when war breaks out between the United States and the Confederacy. Without a compromise in hand at the end of the Thirty-Sixth Congress’s session, John J. Crittenden and other Border South Unionists called a Border State Convention with the goal of keeping hopes for a settlement alive. This plan was dashed with the outbreak of war at Fort Sumter in April 1861. With the beginning of war Border South Unionists had to change their strategy. From this point forward, Crittenden and his allies try to frame the war as an effort to rebuild the Union, not an attack on slavery. Many white border southerners adopted a neutral attitude during this period, and in many cases frustrated secessionists in the Border South decided to leave the region and offer their services to the Confederacy. This chapter also illustrates how political tensions spilled over into violence in the Border South, as Baltimore and Saint Louis endured large-scale riots in response to the presence of federal troops.

The Oklahoma earthquake of April 9, 1952*

1956 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 269-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry J. Miller
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Good Evidence ◽  
Shallow Depth ◽  
Depth Of Focus ◽  
Saint Louis ◽  
Saint Louis University ◽  
Instrumental Study ◽  
Master's Thesis ◽  
Institute Of Technology

abstract The Oklahoma earthquake of April 9, 1952 provided an instrumental study of seismograms throughout the United States. There is good evidence for the existence of crustal layers, and consequently a shallow depth of focus. The normal velocities of P and S obtained were 8.07 and 4.43 km/sec. This paper is a summary of a Master's thesis in geophysics at the Saint Louis University Institute of Technology. The complete thesis may be consulted in the Institute library.

scholarly journals Attracting Native Bees to Your Florida Landscape

EDIS ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (6) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Rachel Mallinger ◽  
Anne Yasalonis ◽  
Gary Knox ◽  
Wayne Hobbs
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Community Gardens ◽  
The United States ◽  
Floral Resources ◽  
Native Bees ◽  
Wild Bees ◽  
Fact Sheet ◽  
Bee Conservation

Florida is home to approximately 315 species of native wild bees. These bees rely on flowers for survival; their diets consist exclusively of pollen and nectar harvested from flowers. Recently reported declines in some bee species have heightened awareness of bee conservation across the United States and motivated efforts to increase floral resources for bees. This 7-page fact sheet written by Rachel E. Mallinger, Wayne Hobbs, Anne Yasalonis, and Gary Knox and published by the UF/IFAS Entomology and Nematology Department shows how gardeners and land managers can aid in conservation efforts by planting flowers for bees in home or community gardens. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/IN1255

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