Gardeners’ Past Gardening Experience and Its Moderating Effect on Community Garden Participation

이, 재호; Matarrita‐Cascante, David

doi:10.3390/su11123308

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“…In our study, gardening experience positively impacted community gardens, with respondents with gardening experience almost always supportive of community gardens, and previous research has similarly shown that increased gardening experience enhances the impact of affective motivation on gardening participation (Lee and Matarrita-Cascante, 2019). However, those who engage in home gardening prefer to build community gardens, which are a reflection of demand, and community gardens provide a place for gardening activities.…”

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Study of residents’ willingness to construct community gardens in the post-epidemic era

Hua

Akita

Zhang

2022

IRSPSD International

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Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, people who had experienced social isolation during the epidemic became more concerned about the function of public open spaces in their communities. In developing China, community gardens have not been included in the urban planning system. This study explores whether community residents support the construction of community gardens on public land for collective gardening activities and the reasons for the formation of their willingness. The subjects of this study are residents of three urbanized residential communities in Wuhan, Hubei Province. Questionnaires were distributed in the communities via the internet to assess residents' willingness to build community gardens. Three hundred eighty-two completed and valid questionnaires were collected. Descriptive statistics and chi-square tests were used to evaluate the categorical variables. The results showed that 82.5% of respondents expressed support for the construction of community gardens, while 17.5% held the opposite view. Respondents who were female, elderly, and had minors in the household had a higher percentage of supportive statements. Living in different communities, education levels, and monthly income had no significant impact on the results. Community evaluation and horticultural experience had a significant impact on the results. Finally, we discuss the main reasons for willingness. In addition, we found that not all supporters were willing to spend money or time on community gardens. The results of this study are significant for community management decision-making and spatial planning.

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Study of residents’ willingness to construct community gardens in the post-epidemic era

Hua

Akita

Zhang

2022

IRSPSD International

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“…According to Stedman [25,28], place meanings are cognitions people hold towards certain places, and represent a descriptive statement of what a place means. Humans attribute symbolic meanings to a place based on their cognition, and further develop a positive emotional or affective bond to it [23,48]. In this study, Discovery Green was an important everyday place which local families and individuals often visited.…”

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Incorporating Physical Environment-Related Factors in an Assessment of Community Attachment: Understanding Urban Park Contributions

Matarrita‐Cascante

이

et al. 2019

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Community sociologists have examined community attachment through an almost exclusive focus on people’s social relations. Recent research efforts have noted the neglect of the physical place in traditional community sociological studies. Doing this has brought the physical environment into their discussions of community attachment. Despite this progress, we remain limited in our understanding of the physical environment’s contribution to peoples’ attachment to their communities and whether its effect on community attachment is applicable in the context of urban settings. In an effort to expand our knowledge of this topic, this study explored the contributions of the urban physical environment on community attachment. By selecting the Discovery Green Park as a typical form of physical environment in Houston, Texas, this study sought to investigate how people’s levels of community attachment could be predicted by: (1) peoples’ interactions with an urban park; (2) people’s emotional connections with such a park; and (3) peoples’ social interactions with others within the park. After conducting a series of block model regression analyses, we found that community attachment was not completely defined by social factors, but also depended upon peoples’ emotional connections with the local physical environment and the social interactions happening in those settings.

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“…Previous work has suggested that access to community gardens can help immigrant communities maintain cultural ties and adjust to a new country (Hartwig and Mason, 2016; Hondagneu‐Sotelo, 2015). Immigrants are often more familiar with growing food than other garden participants (Cohen and Reynolds, 2015; Lee and Matarrita‐Cascante, 2019; Minkoff‐Zern, 2012). Thirteen of the gardens have a significant number of gardeners from one or more ethnic groups.…”

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Quantifying use in a community garden program with extensive resource provision to gardeners

Niedzwiecki

Kates

Brown

et al. 2022

Urban Agric & Regnl Food Sys

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Harvest Pierce County (HPC) is a new community garden program in Tacoma and Pierce County, WA, managed as a nonprofit with extensive municipal involvement.The program manages approximately 80 gardens. Each garden is provided with access to land, soil testing, clean soil and compost, water, education, and guidance for gardeners, thus effectively eliminating common obstacles to successful cultivation in urban areas. We conducted a survey of gardens within the HPC program to quantify the number and size of plots within each garden and to qualitatively assess intensity of use. Internal (donation history, age, plot and garden size, and number of plots) and external factors (population density, racial diversity, income) based on the neighborhoods surrounding the gardens were evaluated to assess their potential association with use intensity. We surveyed 66 gardens containing 1,960 plots. The mean number of plots per garden was 32 ± 20.2 with each plot having a mean area of 25.6 m 2 . On a scale of 0 to 3, mean use intensity was 2.26 ± 0.55. Larger gardens (p < .085) and larger plots (p < .02) are used more intensively than smaller gardens and smaller plots. Gardens were well distributed across income, population density, and racial identification. Overall gardens are well-used across the program. For this program, providing the requisite materials and information for gardens has resulted in a program that is inclusive and is likely to provide a range of benefits for participants.

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Gardeners’ Past Gardening Experience and Its Moderating Effect on Community Garden Participation

Cited by 14 publications

References 56 publications

Study of residents’ willingness to construct community gardens in the post-epidemic era

Study of residents’ willingness to construct community gardens in the post-epidemic era

Incorporating Physical Environment-Related Factors in an Assessment of Community Attachment: Understanding Urban Park Contributions

Quantifying use in a community garden program with extensive resource provision to gardeners

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