The Impact of Home and Community Gardening in America

The results of a new survey by the National Horticultural Association (NGA) show that food gardening is increasing in the United States. In 2009, more than 700 families were planning to cultivate their own fruits, vegetables, herbs, or fruits. This has increased 19% since 2008. This anticipated increase has almost doubled the growth of vegetable gardens from 2007 to 2008 and has increased by 10%.

More and more Americans are aware of the benefits of growing their products, including quality improvement, taste improvement, and cost reduction. In 2008, gardeners used $ 2.5 billion to buy seeds, plants, fertilizer, tools and other gardening items to raise their own food. According to NGA estimates, taking into account the typical gardener's investment and the market price of the product, on average, well-grown food parks will generate $ 500 in revenue.

The community garden community garden is the form of urban agriculture that is being studied the most from the viewpoint of social, economic and health impacts. Of the 75 articles reviewed, 24 were focused on community gardens. Most literature consists of unique qualitative research. Most of these investigations use surveys, interviews, and case studies to document the impact. Non-profit and institutional report (Balmer et al.), 2005 addressing barriers and policy needs, KH Brown & Jameton (2000; McCormack, Laska, Larson, & Story, 2010) to examine health effects, 2005; Cohen & Reynolds , 2012; MacNair, 2002)

Community gardens around the world are very different. In North America, community gardens vary from the familiar "victory garden" where small vegetables are cultivated to a large "greening" project that protects nature, a small street landscape in the corner of the city . Some people grow flowers, others grow up, and their grace is shared. In many major cities, even non-profit organizations are providing assistance to low-income households, groups of children, and community organizations by supporting the development and development of their own gardens. In other parts of the UK and Europe, closely related "distribution gardens" can have dozens of compartments, each covering hundreds of square meters and borrowed by the same family for many generations. In developing countries, the common land of small gardens is a well-known part of the landscape and can function as a market garden in urban areas as well.

According to SAGE Food Encyclopedia (2015), the community garden is an arbitrary garden planted by groups of people. Any of these gardens can grow as long as you are a self-identified community. Examples include community and community members, organizations, schools, students. Although all these types of communities are in Calgary, many community gardens are built around community associations. (Calgary, 2017) Community gardens have traditionally been a response to the social crisis (Weissman, E., Robinson, J., 2015) Throughout history, places where families have abundant food and goods There is. Other families may not have enough food and goods. The community garden is also very similar, I remember the story of the stone soup. The social crisis that emerges in modern society is food security.