Connections in the garden: opportunities for wellbeing

Bailey, Aisling; Kingsley, Jonathan

doi:10.1080/13549839.2020.1845637

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“…Respondents emphasized having one's 'own' place/land ('second home', 'oasis in the city', 'garden as private space'), comfort, freedom, calm but also sentimental and integrational meaning. Similar findings are found in Bailey and Kingsley (2020), Nordh, Wiklund and Koppang (2016) and Martens, Nordh and Gonzalez (2018).…”

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Contemporary trends in urban allotment gardening: The example of family plots in Warsaw

Mokras-Grabowska¹

2021

KWOM

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The study aims to gain an insight into current trends in the use of four selected allotment gardens (rodzinne ogrody działkowe – RODs) in Warsaw (Poland): ROD ‘Pratulińska’, ROD ‘Obrońców Pokoju’, ROD ‘Kolejarz’ and ROD ‘Zelmot’. The main method used in the research was a survey of plot holders (structured interviews, n = 210). The findings suggest that holders are mainly older, retired people, but the number of younger plot holders has been increasing in recent years. Most live on huge estates in close proximity to the allotment gardens. The main motivations for having a plot are relaxation, gardening as a hobby and connection with the natural environment. Food production itself was not mentioned as a prior motivation. The meaning of having a plot corresponds with motivations. Some plot holders emphasize having their own, private place (a kind of second home, refuge, respite from city life). Most of the respondents have positive opinions regarding opening allotment gardens to local communities, although they are not very eager to participate in integrational events and activities organized by the Polish Association of Allotment Gardens (PZD) or others. The findings are in line with global trends presented in research exploring allotment garden recreational space in Poland and abroad.

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Contemporary trends in urban allotment gardening: The example of family plots in Warsaw

Mokras-Grabowska¹

2021

KWOM

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“…Additionally, the community connections forged through urban environmental stewardship can generate social resilience, providing community members a support network in the face of a range of challenges [44]. The restorative effects identified by participants from being within these garden settings offers further support for existing literature identifying these wellbeing benefits [7,9,17,21,83]. Through the application of a phenomenological lens, these findings importantly show that it is the act of engaging with the gardens that begets valuable sense experience [69].…”

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Valuing the Benefits and Enhancing Access: Community and Allotment Gardens in Urban Melbourne, Australia

Bailey

Kingsley

2022

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The purpose of this study was to explore perceptions of the benefits and challenges experienced by community and allotment gardens utilising a broad theoretical analysis, pertaining to the case study of Melbourne, a city in Australia that until recently has been experiencing significant population growth and urban densification. The study involved qualitative, semi-structured interviews with 23 participants from six urban community and allotment gardens. Interviews identified the perceived benefits of community and allotment gardening, perceived demographic patterns of engagement, challenges faced in relation to secure land access, and the potential offered by community and allotment gardens for social and environmental wellbeing. Findings revealed a range of perceived benefits, perceived demographic patterns, highlighted challenges posed to participation due to insecurity around ongoing land access, and detailed the perceived capacity community and allotment gardens have to contribute to social and environmental wellbeing. This study contributes to existing literature focused on the benefits and potential of community and allotment gardening for personal, social and environmental wellbeing, by offering an original theoretical contribution through carrying out an analysis informed by urban geography, phenomenology, political economy and ecology, and to literature focused on issues of access to land for these amenities.

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“…For example, some research has outlined the benefits of exercising in nature (e.g., "green exercise") in relation to both human wellbeing as well as a means of protecting natural environments and biodiversity via developing connexions with nature [e.g., (63)]. In line with these findings, nature-based interventions, such as gardening, have been found to reduce stress, foster meaningful social relationships, and enhance relationships with all beings, not just amongst humans [e.g., (64)(65)(66)].…”

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Climate change and adventure guiding: The role of nature connection in guide wellbeing

Martínez

Mackenzie²

2022

Front. Public Health

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Ecological challenges are quickly shaping the future of the tourism industry with an increasing focus on how to develop more sustainable adventure tourism practises. Adventure guides play an important role in this transition and in shaping client experiences, however there is a need to better understand how climate change may have important impacts on guides' wellbeing. This study explored adventure guides' experiences of nature connectedness and potential links between climate change, nature connexion, and wellbeing for adventure guides. Semi-structured qualitative interviews (x = 11) with adventure guides were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis to explore these relationships. Adventure guides reported experiencing meaningful connexions and relationships with the natural environments in which they worked, while also highlighting why not all types of nature nor time spent outdoors facilitated this connexion. Guides that reported being more connected to nature also reported a higher sense of environmental responsibility, and guides described how this often created “ethical dilemmas” in seeking to resolve tensions between their deep connexion to nature and unsustainable practises that their guiding work often entailed. Analysis also highlighted the value and wellbeing guides derived from sharing their love of nature with clients. These findings expand emerging theoretical models of adventure guide wellbeing, and suggest a range of practises that can support a more ecologically sustainable adventure tourism industry.

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Connections in the garden: opportunities for wellbeing

Cited by 21 publications

References 41 publications

Contemporary trends in urban allotment gardening: The example of family plots in Warsaw

Contemporary trends in urban allotment gardening: The example of family plots in Warsaw

Valuing the Benefits and Enhancing Access: Community and Allotment Gardens in Urban Melbourne, Australia

Climate change and adventure guiding: The role of nature connection in guide wellbeing

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