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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Home gardening"”.
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Case Study on a Container Gardening Program: Can Home Food Production Impact Community Food Security in Rural Appalachia?
Home gardening has historically been a subsistence or supplemental form of food procurement worldwide and promoted as a food security project in times of economic hardship. Qualitative research was used to investigate container gardening's potential to provide the impetus for further agricultural …
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The Examination of the Link Between Pesticides in Food and Learnig Disorders in Children
… have been used for decades in agriculture and home gardening. The research literature on pesticides in food and their impact on children's behavior was examined. Other literature examined the effect of neurotoxins on the human body. A review of the literature indicates that young children's …
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Aedre, An Automated Watering System
The rapid growth of home gardening, partly due to the organic food movement, has increased desire and demand for a smarter irrigation solution. In order to tap into this growing agricultural market, Clearwater Industries has created Aedre, an automated watering solution. Aedre is designed not only …
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A multiscalar, interdisciplinary study of the social and ecological dynamics of urban agriculture in Chicago, IL
… contribution of private spaces, including home food gardens, to local food systems. In the first phase of the research project, public and private spaces of food production in Chicago were identified and mapped through the manual analysis of high-resolution aerial images in Google Earth in …
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Development of novel fertilizer manufacturing processes using human urine
… produced can either be sold as a niche (home gardening) or bulk (large agricultural) fertilizer. The size of the niche fertilizer market is important when determining a preferred treatment method. Assuming a feed supply of 7.5m3 urine per week, for a market size where only 0.14 m3 per …