Tyrimo rezultatai parodė, kad Šiaulių miesto mėgėjų sodų teritorijose privačios žemės savininkų skaičius 2014 m. sudaro 23,4 proc., o valstybinės – tik 3,2 proc. Kadangi didžioji dalis sklypų yra valdomi nuosavybės teise, neišvengiamai kyla problemos planuojant teritorijas, dėl infrastruktūros, vandens tiekimo ir nuotekų sistemų. Neapibrėžtos bendrijų teritorijos kelia problemų atliekant kadastrinius matavimus, apie jas nėra išsamios informacijos. Šalia Šiaulių miesto esančios mėgėjų sodų teritorijos dėl sparčių urbanizacijos procesų neišvengiamai virsta jų tąsa prarasdamos pradinę savo paskirtį ir virsdamos gyvenamaisiais kvartalais. Šiuose masyvus lyginant su miesto teritorija yra ypač akivaizdūs ekonominio išsivystymo skirtumai. Nepakankama bendro naudojimo objektų priežiūra ir savivaldybės institucijų aplaidumas sąlygojo susidariusią situaciją. Siekiant ištirti Šiaulių miesto sodininkų bendrijų gyventojų bei naudotojų požiūrį į jiems kylančias problemas dėl žemės sklypų naudojimo buvo atlikta anketinė apklausa. Anketos buvo dalinamos apsilankius sodininkų bendrijose tuo metu ten sutiktiems nariams. Parengtoje anketinėje apklausoje dalyvavę respondentai nurodė, kad 41 proc. piliečių savo sodo sklypą naudoja būtent rekreaciniais tikslais, 33 proc. lieka prie pirminės sodininkų bendrijų paskirties – mėgėjiškos žemės ūkio veiklos, o likusieji 26 proc. soduose jau gyvena nuolatos. Tačiau, neretai sodų sklypuose vykdomos nelegalios statybos, nesilaikoma statybų techninio... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The results of the research have shown that the number of private land owners in the territories of amateur gardens in 2014 is 23.4 per cent of the Šiauliai city area, and the number of state-owned land in amateur gardens is 3,2 per cent. Since the largest part of plots is controlled by the right of ownership, problems arise when planning territories, due to infrastructure, water supply and sewage systems. Undefined territories of communities raise problems when conducting cadastral measurements and there is no detailed information about them. The territories of amateur gardens near Šiauliai city inevitably become their extensions due to rapid urbanisation processes: they lose their original purpose and become residential areas. When comparing these areas with urban territory, there are evident differences of economic development. Inadequate maintenance of common use facilities and municipal institutions negligence caused such situation. In order to investigate the attitude of residents and users of Šiauliai city gardeners’ societies to arising problems regarding land plot use a questionnaire survey was conducted. The questionnaires were distributed among members of gardeners’ societies. Participants who filled in the questionnaire indicated that 41 per cent of citizens use their garden plot for recreational purposes, 33 percent of citizens use their gardens for amateur agricultural activities, which is the original purpose of gardeners’ societies, and the rest 26 per cent... [to full text]

Les programmes éducatifs de jardinage alimentaire avec les jeunes offrent l’opportunité d’agir sur leurs connaissances nutritionnelles, préférences pour des légumes, sentiment d'efficacité personnelle à consommer des fruits et légumes, envie d'y goûter et leur consommation. Dans ces activités, certains obstacles peuvent freiner l'éducation alimentaire et nutritionnelle faite par des animateurs qui ne sont pas professionnels de la nutrition ou de la santé. Le présent projet consistait à développer un volet alimentaire et nutritionnel éducatif pour les "Jardins-jeunes" (JJ), un camp d'été en jardinage du Jardin botanique de Montréal, à offrir une courte formation en nutrition à ses animatrices, puis à évaluer leurs niveaux d'intérêt et de confiance personnelle à intégrer ce volet à l'édition 2013. Les méthodes d'évaluation auprès des animatrices comprenaient des entrevues de groupe, des questionnaires et une observation-terrain. La taille d'échantillon permettait uniquement une analyse qualitative des résultats. La formation semble avoir maintenu ou élevé les niveaux de confiance et de connaissances des animatrices sur plusieurs sujets alimentaires et nutritionnels. Les animatrices évoquent que les trois activités de trente minutes en alimentation et nutrition, intégrées aux JJ 2013, auraient favorisé l'éducation nutritionnelle, qui par ailleurs, fut limitée par manque de temps. Elles rapportent avoir perçu des effets positifs du programme sur les connaissances, attitudes et comportements alimentaires des jeunes. Nos résultats suggèrent qu'un volet d’éducation alimentaire et nutritionnelle peut être intégré à un programme de jardinage par des animateurs non spécialisés dans ces domaines, outillés et encadrés pour se sentir motivés et confiants dans leur rôle. / Food garden curricula for children provide opportunities to work on their nutritional knowledge, vegetables preferences, self-efficacy to consume fruits and vegetables, willingness to taste them and their consumption. In such programs, certain obstacles can restrain the implementation or use of a food and nutrition curriculum by summer camp monitor/animator who are not nutrition or health professionals. This project consisted in developing and adding a food and nutrition educational component to "Jardins-jeunes", a gardening summer camp offered by Jardin Botanique de Montréal. A brief nutrition training was given to the camp’s monitors. Their level of interest and self-efficacy to implement this component trough the 2013 edition were evaluated. Evaluating methods included group interviews, questionnaires and a field observation. Qualitative analysis was conducted due to the small sample size. The nutrition training appears to have maintained or enhanced monitors' interests and knowledge on food and nutrition related subjects. They reported that the thirty minute food and nutrition activities integrated in the 2013 program presented opportunities to offer nutrition education, although limited by a lack of time. They report perceiving positive effects on children's knowledge, attitudes and behaviors on their food after their participation to the program. Our results suggest that a food and nutrition curriculum can be implemented in a garden program by summer camp monitor/animator who are not specialists in those fields, but who are provided with the adequate tools and support to be confident and interested in this task.

This thesis examines cultivation in the lives of Sarah and Columbia Bennett between the years 1852 and 1874. The Bennett women's letters convey an intimate sense of the agro-economic preoccupations (and gardening pleasures) of these slave-owning white women, and the centrality of cultivation in mid-nineteenth-century rural Louisiana within a landscape of country stores, plantations, and people. As the lives of the Bennett women illustrate, white women's gardening knowledge and practice formed a cornerstone of central Louisiana society. The Bennett women's gardening knowledge and skill were primary components in the creation of a self-sustaining plantation household. By cultivating produce and other foodstuffs for consumption, the Bennett women made possible the family's participation in the lucrative market for cotton and other cash crops, a market that also tied their household to plantation economies elsewhere in the transatlantic world.

Thesis (M.Arch. (Professional))--University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, 2016 / Globalisation is a considerable catalyst for the state of the world today, and so it is evident through industrialisation, modernism and capitalism that the power and spatiality of food has shifted. Food has always brought people together as it is an universal language that is understood by everyone. However food no longer exists as this valued product of necessity but has now become a product of consumerism. Large corporations control our food industry which has lead to an economic food crisis where our basic needs have become too expensive. This is a consequence of increased population, demands, immoral farming methods and greed. Not only is it affecting our economies but our natural resources. Food production systems need to change along with our attitude towards the environment. In an age of technology, branding and mass production, people have become disconnected from nature, regarding the food we eat and where it comes from. In South Africa, this has resulted in increased food insecurity, obesity, malnutrition and health risks. The necessity of honest, healthy and nutritious clean-living has been lost. So how can we overcome this pressure before we collapse as a society and as a planet? The quality of food affects our daily productivity, well-being and psyche, our primal need. How can architecture instigate a change for the free food philosophy? How can it challenge profit margins in the food system through urban contexts by re-establishing our connection with nature? Investigating the journey through the history of farming, politics and food, I will observe the gradual change in the food industry from the farmer to corporation to consumer, exposing the cultural power plays, which can be reconsidered through architecture. This thesis proposes an holistic approach towards propagating parks and public spaces through food education in an urban context. It concentrates on re-igniting the relationship between man and nature through small-scale agriculture using small-scale architecture: ‘agritechture’. Establishing its roots in Joubert Park, Park Station Precinct, Johannesburg, the strategy unfolds biophilia characteristics observing the intricacy of Persian architecture and soil structures stimulated by modular systems, grid proportions and layering. The prairie ecosystem becomes a precedent study for heterotopian architecture rooting itself as homogeneity. Creating catalytic nodes of urban renewal, it unifies communities while defending its territory, similar to the original African settlement, ‘the Kraal’. / MT2017

In recent years, there has been converging evidence on the relation between nature experiences and learning. Although outdoor experiences are not just seen as leisurely activities anymore, barriers, such as lack of resources or travel time can hinder the propagation of more outdoor educational programs. This study explores a relatively new outdoor educational setting that can help overcome these difficulties by decreasing the amount of resources, input and energy necessary to set up such measures: the educational forest garden. With lower maintenance in creating an environment that resembles an authentic ecosystem, the question remains if forest gardening can foster similar learning outcomes than those reported in other educational settings. A qualitative study in a Swedish mini-forest garden was employed to explore what types of learning are possible in this new type of setting. Interviews with two educators and eight children were conducted to find out what perceptions and experiences they communicate after spending time in the mini-forest garden. The educator’s ideas were compared with children’s accounts and observational notes on their behavior to see if there was a difference in perception and experience. Examples for learning were found in three different dimensions: cognitive, emotional and social. The explored categories were ecological literacy, language learning, attention; being comfortable outdoors, respect and care, awareness of surroundings, co-creation, teacher-student interaction, gender differences and free play and imagination. The findings indicate an overlap between teacher’s and children’s experiences and perceptions in almost all categories and similar beneficial learning outcomes with forest gardening to other outdoor educational endeavors. Along with the potential for self-development, forest gardening may be a new way to successfully teach in the outdoors with less input or resources. Although a small scale study that should not be generalized, the study gives insight to educators’ and children’s voices in a new outdoor educational setting and can help overcome the lack of children’s voices in research in general. At the same time, it adds to the limited amount of research on forest gardening and potentially helps to increase the popularity of forest gardening as a new outdoor educational method.

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between green environments and resilience in older adults. It had two aims: 1) to explore the effect of a reflective garden walking program on resilience and three of its related concepts - erceived stress, personal growth initiative, and quality of life - in older adults, and 2) to explore the resilience patterns of older adults engaging in the reflective garden walking intervention. A parallel mixed method design using a quasi-experimental quantitative and a descriptive exploratory qualitative approach was used. Participants engaged in a six week reflective garden walking program. By the end of the program, resilience levels exhibited a slight increase and perceived stress levels a decrease. The qualitative data supported some beneficial effects of the reflective garden walking program, but also indicated that much of the participants' experience of resilience may have been related to the rich social and nature-filled environment in which already they lived. Patterns of resilience that appeared in the data were maintaining a positive attitude, belief in one's self in the face of one's vulnerabilities, woven into the social fabric, purpose and meaning, personal strength, and communities for growing older. / Includes bibliography. / Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2015. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

This thesis discusses the importance of school gardens. First, two current environmental and societal problems are highlighted: the industrialized food system and what Richard Louv has termed, "Nature Deficit Disorder," in children. School gardens are then presented as an effective tool that can address and remedy such issues. Lastly, a how-to manual for implementing such projects in schools is provided as well as a few sample lesson plans to be used in conjunction with the garden in each subject across the curriculum.

Garden histories since the mid 1990s have increasingly turned to studies of vernacular gardens as sites of identity formation. More recently, the development of environmental history and specifically urban environmental history has started to show how vernacular gardening in suburban and urban spaces has contributed to changes in urban environments. Relatively little work on home gardening history in this sense has been undertaken in the New Zealand context, while in Australia such work is well underway. This study augments knowledge of home gardening history in New Zealand by focussing on one urban area, Christchurch, known both as the 'Garden City' and as 'one of the most English cities outside of England'. An examination of gardening literature over the period from European colonisation in 1850 to the first visit to the city by a reigning monarch in 1954 highlights changes in gardening tropes rather than particular garden fashions or elements. The four principal tropes of abundance, beauty, protection and sustenance, each supported with a particular kind of ritual-like garden competition, show how gardening discourses related to ideas about the maintenance of the social and cultural order. A more objective measure of attitudes to gardens is gained by examining 1823 property advertisements across the period. Categorised by suburb this analysis shows a level of gardening variation across the city. Following this analysis, case studies of four suburbs in three areas were undertaken. These were based primarily on oral histories and reveal the extent of gardening variation across the city, and the limited but significant effect that gardening discourses had on gardens. This suggests methodological problems with many studies of vernacular gardens, as well as opportunities for further studies. This thesis also demonstrates the value of home gardening histories to urban environmental history, particularly with regard to the former colonies of the British Empire.

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This study aims to explore how a gardening project with elderly living in Djuröhemmet, a nursing home outside Stockholm, affected them regarding psychological well-being and their experience of participation during the planning and construction of the memory garden. The gardening project is new in its kind by allowing the residents to influence the design of the garden by sharing the project leader their gardening memories from previous parts of their life and by wishing for specific plants and items.  The method being used was qualitative interviews where we interviewed seven people living in Djuröhemmet who participated in all or parts of the project. The theoretical framework is Molins (2004) definition of participation, but also theories of meaningfulness, social needs and gerotranscendence were applied. The results indicate that the participants did not realize that their involvement during the planning helped developed the garden. Also, they did not feel that their participation during the gardens construction by attending and commenting the work was considered to be participation as they lacked the ability to be physically active. Their view of participation differs from the theoretical definition. Nevertheless, we found several benefits of the garden regarding its impact on psychological well-being.