Exploring barriers to home gardening in Ohio households

Schupp, Justin; Castellano, Rebecca L. Som; Sharp, Jeff S.; Bean, Molly

doi:10.1080/13549839.2015.1017807

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“…As such, this may suggest that farmers' markets might remain populated by an overly white and affluent customer base for reasons other than physical accessibility. Findings like these about social support could suggest that something else prevents non-traditional farmers' market customers (e.g., other barriers that have been pointed out by DeLind 2011; Guthman 2011; Schupp et al 2015) from becoming shoppers. This is a potentially fruitful avenue for future research.…”

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Just where does local food live? Assessing farmers’ markets in the United States

Schupp

2015

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Participation in the local food movement has grown dramatically in the United States, with the farmers' market being one of its most widespread and heavily promoted forums. Proponents argue that the interactions and transactions that occur at farmers' markets benefit market participants, but, more importantly, have broader benefits for the neighborhoods they are located in and for society itself. The promise of these benefits raises several important questions, notably: where are farmers' markets located and who has access to them? While many works have examined the characteristics of individuals who frequent markets, few have examined the areas and inhabitants hosting these markets. Using data from the USDA and US Census, I explore the location of farmers' markets areas across several geographic measurements, including at the national, census division, and census tract levels. Results reveal the following: (1) Perhaps not being as white of a movement as critics have suggested, farmers' markets are almost exclusively a middle to middle-upper class phenomenon; and (2) Farmers' markets are very unlikely to be found in neighborhoods with lower than average socio-economic statuses indicators, in specific divisions of the US, and in rural areas. Results from this research further illuminate our understanding of where farmers' markets are located throughout United States while presenting some interesting questions for the local food movement as it continues to moves forward.

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Just where does local food live? Assessing farmers’ markets in the United States

Schupp

2015

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“…(E. J. Sequeira, personal communication, January 6, 2017) In the literature, results from extensive household survey data in Ohio underline Sequeira's observations about space and income constraints creating barriers to home gardening (Schupp, Som Castellano, Sharp, & Bean, 2016). The extensive home and community gardening support that four of the five CBO partners in Food Dignity provide aim to help overcome both barriers, including with minigrants and with the full financial and technical support that FLV and BMA have been able to offer in the gardens-for-health trials that emerged as a next step from the Food Dignity collaboration.…”

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Growing Our Own: Characterizing Food Production Strategies with Five U.S. Community-based Food Justice Organizations

Porter

2018

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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Community-based organizations (CBOs) leading the U.S. food justice movement have helped expand community food production. Understanding the nature of this work is one key to being able to more effectively support and expand it. The literature, however, contains little scholarly work characterizing production-related practices of food justice CBOs. To help fill that gap, this paper draws from participatory action research with five CBOs to identify and characterize their community food production activities and goals. This research was conducted over five years, during a project called Food Dignity, using three main methods: digital storytelling; collaborative pathway modeling; and conventional case study methods that included interviews, participation and observation, and document analysis. These data sets were examined to identify what production activities the CBOs support and why they undertake them.Results suggest that the CBOs invest in community food production in eight main ways. Five are directly related to food. Listed roughly in decreasing order of intensity and frequency of the activities, these are (1) growing vegetables and fruits, (2) supporting community gardens, (3) supporting individual gardeners, (4) supporting local farmers, and (5) fostering other kinds of food production. Additionally, three crosscutting strategies underpin all the CBOs' work, including community food production: (6) connecting people and organizations, (7) promoting community food

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“…Despite the benefits and widespread practice of gardening, there are households that would like to garden but face barriers in doing so. For example, some studies have found low socioeconomic status (SES) to be a significant barrier to home gardening, as individuals and households living in poverty sometimes lack the financial resources to construct a garden and the time to cultivate it (DeLind, 2011;Hinrichs, 2000;Schupp et al, 2016). Moreover, geography can also be a barrier to home gardening.…”

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“…While claims have been made about the benefits of 'growing your own,' there is much less information as to the scale of food growing activity, particularly in relation to household gardens (Church, Mitchell, Ravenscroft, & Stapleton, 2015). Moreover, there has been limited empirical analysis of the barriers that prevent participation in gardening and local food systems (Schupp, Som Castellano, Sharp, & Bean, 2016). At the same time, household food-provisioning efforts across different geographic, economic, and racial contexts are building alternative food systems that-by design or in practice-disrupt an increasingly corporatized, neoliberal food system.…”

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The Motivations and Needs of Rural, Low-Income Household Food Gardeners

Darby

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Torre

2020

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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In local food systems research and practice, little attention has been given to the motivations and behaviors of low-income household gardeners as food provisioners. In this paper, we examine the motivations, barriers, and practices of food gardening among low-income rural U.S. residents with the goal of informing policies and programs that might support these food provisioning activities. This work draws from ethnographic inquiry, including surveys, interviews, and garden visits with households in rural, Western Pennsylvania. Over half of those surveyed (n=124) grow some of their own food, with higher rates of gardening among higher-income households. Low-income gardeners are most motivated by three things; (1) a desire to save money, (2) pleasure from the practice of gardening and time spent outside, and (3) a connection to spiritual practice. For the low-income gardeners we interviewed, gardening creates and reinforces social connections and cultural

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Exploring barriers to home gardening in Ohio households

Cited by 25 publications

References 41 publications

Just where does local food live? Assessing farmers’ markets in the United States

Just where does local food live? Assessing farmers’ markets in the United States

Growing Our Own: Characterizing Food Production Strategies with Five U.S. Community-based Food Justice Organizations

The Motivations and Needs of Rural, Low-Income Household Food Gardeners

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