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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"Gardeners"”.
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The Growing Together Project: Understanding impacts on field day attendees and Iowa Master Gardeners
… components allowed Iowa residents and master gardeners opportunities to increase food security in their communities through either participating in a mini-grant or a Home Demonstration Garden in 2016 and 2017. Using both paper and electronic survey software, field day attendees and volunteers …
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Evaluation of marketing methods used to promote extension programs as perceived by Master Gardeners in West Virginia
… based on experiences of current adult Master Gardeners in WV.;A major finding of the study was that for WV Master Gardeners referrals from friends is an effective method of creating awareness of Extension programs. Newspaper articles were the most effective mass media method. The preferred …
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Spiritual wellbeing and the human-nature relationship: An exploration of the spiritual wellbeing experiences of home and community gardeners.
… which individuals can engage with local nature. Gardeners may therefore be able to offer a unique insight into the role that interaction with nature may play in spiritual wellbeing. This study therefore focuses on how spiritual wellbeing may be enhanced and developed through interaction with …
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Home Gardener Preferences, Perceptions, Knowledge and Behaviors Associated with Pest Management Strategies and Information Acquisition
… The overuse and/or misuse of pesticides by home gardeners has been verified through various reports indicating home gardeners may fail to recognize opportunities to implement more preferable pest management practices such as Integrated Pest Management (IPM). A series of three surveys, facilitated …
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Volunteer Motivation and Satisfaction Associated With the University of Illinois Extension Master Gardener Program
A small sample of inactive Master Gardeners indicated health issues and returning to full-time employment as reasons for leaving the program, but there was no conclusive evidence as to why volunteers exited the program. All current gardeners were satisfied with the program but were concerned about …
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Ethnicity, Nature, and Community Gardens
… that characterise community gardening influence gardeners’ notions of ethnicity. The study examines the dialectical relationship between nature and culture in community gardens from the theoretical perspectives of debates over ethnicity, the social construction of nature, and political ecology. …
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Food matters - escaping to the garden during Covid-19 lockdowns and (re-)connecting with food
This research is an ethnographic study of gardeners growing food in their home-gardens during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns in England, UK during 2020-2021. With people confined to their homes under law in attempts to stem the spread of the virus, the UK government recommended that people …
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Growing Food Security: The Impact of Community Gardens on Food Security in Denver, Colorado
… and cohesiveness, while directly connecting gardeners to their environment. In some U.S. cities gardens additionally increase community and individual food security by providing fresh food to those who struggle to feed themselves and their families. This study examined the relationship …
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The structure and development of commercial gardening businesses in Fulham and Hammersmith, Middlesex, c. 1680-1861..
… variety of sources to understand more fully the gardeners, garden businesses, and gardening families between 1680 and 1861. The dissertation exploits sources with occupational descriptors, including livery company apprentice registers, bankruptcies and insolvencies, clandestine marriage …
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Community gardening as social action: the Australian community gardening movement and repertoires for change.
… the thesis investigates the ways community gardeners in these organisations approach environmental and social justice issues and considers the relationships between community gardening and wider movements. In particular, the thesis considers the political logic of community gardeners’ …
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Gardening across the life course : A qualitative study of the meaning of everyday gardening and its links with well-being
… between these meanings and the well-being of the gardeners. The study is qualitative and draws on interviews with 25 gardeners in the UK, aged between 25 and 94 years. A small sample of autobiographical garden writing is also used as a data source. The study is influenced by phenomenological, …
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Imagining Boundaries: (Post) Humanist Understandings and Ecological Ethics in the Fiction of Margaret Atwood
… Atwood’s trilogy, we are introduced to the God’s Gardeners, who demonstrate how new ethical systems can be enacted within specific subcultural spaces. From their space on the Edencliff Rooftop Garden, the Gardeners have a critical vantage point by which to view society and resist the controlling …
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Imagining Boundaries: (Post) Humanist Understandings and Ecological Ethics in the Fiction of Margaret Atwood
… Atwood’s trilogy, we are introduced to the God’s Gardeners, who demonstrate how new ethical systems can be enacted within specific subcultural spaces. From their space on the Edencliff Rooftop Garden, the Gardeners have a critical vantage point by which to view society and resist the controlling …
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A Struggle So Beautiful: The Roses That Rise From Concrete: Exploring Transformative Ruptures in the Higher Education Journeys of Formerly Incarcerated Latinx/a/o Students Through Relationships with Institutional Agents
… emerged: the “Concrete Soil”, the “Concrete Gardeners”, and “Shattering the Concrete”. The Concrete Soil encompasses how the FILS experience higher education and their relationship with institutional agents and the impact the agents had on the students resulting in Transformative Ruptures. …
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Understanding people’s perceptions and attitudes toward community garden landscape in Roanoke, Virginia
… and support of community gardens. Community gardeners and non-community gardeners in five different low-income and low-access neighborhoods were chosen as study participants in the City of Roanoke, Virginia. Quantitative and qualitative data were used together for this study. Factor analysis, …
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Performance variations of rose cultivars due to climate location
… of the American Rose Society and other selected gardeners, who evaluated their roses in terms of performance in their own gardens. More than 5,000 rosarians participated, each reporting on an average of 25 roses. Some 450 roses introduced into commerce from 1962 through 1967 were included in the …
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Common ground: horticulture and the cultivation of open space in the East End of London, 1840-1900
… East Enders were both amateur and professional gardeners. Amateurs gardened in backyards and window boxes, but horticultural expert Shirley Hibberd compared their flower shows favourably with those of the Royal Horticultural Society. There was a wide range of nurserymen and market gardeners …
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Shifting Grounds: How Urban Gardening Practices Enact the Relations between Play and Work
… this ambiguity is further exemplified by how gardeners have varying perceptions of play, which overlap but also contest each other. This research also enhances debates on public spaces in cities, and more-than-human geographies, by showing how gardening breathes life into the urban through …
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