Seeds and the city: a review of municipal home food gardening programs in Canada in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Abstract In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, home food gardening articles have saturated popular media outlets. Home food gardening is more popular than ever, and community gardens and community greenhouses are at capacity with long waiting lists for plots. Several local governments acro...
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| description | Abstract In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, home food gardening articles have saturated popular media outlets. Home food gardening is more popular than ever, and community gardens and community greenhouses are at capacity with long waiting lists for plots. Several local governments across the country are also participating in the food gardening craze. This study compares 19 municipal urban home food gardening programs that ran in 2020. These municipalities provided program participants with free gardening supplies and instructions on how to grow food at home. This study reveals a complicated relationship among municipalities, food gardening programs and household and community food security. The study also determines that the social and emotional challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic are somewhat alleviated through gardening. Ultimately, municipalities are limited in their policy capacities to adequately move the needle on food insecurity in Canada. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-440bc169af204a0bba51fb7c80446dd02022-12-22T02:34:47ZengSpringer NatureHumanities & Social Sciences Communications2662-99922022-08-019111210.1057/s41599-022-01301-6Seeds and the city: a review of municipal home food gardening programs in Canada in response to the COVID-19 pandemicJanet Music0Lisa Mullins1Sylvain Charlebois2Charlotte Large3Kydra Mayhew4Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Dalhousie UniversityFaculty of Management, Dalhousie UniversityAgri-Food Analytics Lab, Dalhousie UniversityFaculty of Management, Dalhousie UniversityFaculty of Management, Dalhousie UniversityAbstract In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, home food gardening articles have saturated popular media outlets. Home food gardening is more popular than ever, and community gardens and community greenhouses are at capacity with long waiting lists for plots. Several local governments across the country are also participating in the food gardening craze. This study compares 19 municipal urban home food gardening programs that ran in 2020. These municipalities provided program participants with free gardening supplies and instructions on how to grow food at home. This study reveals a complicated relationship among municipalities, food gardening programs and household and community food security. The study also determines that the social and emotional challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic are somewhat alleviated through gardening. Ultimately, municipalities are limited in their policy capacities to adequately move the needle on food insecurity in Canada.https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01301-6 |
| spellingShingle | Janet Music Lisa Mullins Sylvain Charlebois Charlotte Large Kydra Mayhew Seeds and the city: a review of municipal home food gardening programs in Canada in response to the COVID-19 pandemic Humanities & Social Sciences Communications |
| title | Seeds and the city: a review of municipal home food gardening programs in Canada in response to the COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_full | Seeds and the city: a review of municipal home food gardening programs in Canada in response to the COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_fullStr | Seeds and the city: a review of municipal home food gardening programs in Canada in response to the COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_full_unstemmed | Seeds and the city: a review of municipal home food gardening programs in Canada in response to the COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_short | Seeds and the city: a review of municipal home food gardening programs in Canada in response to the COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_sort | seeds and the city a review of municipal home food gardening programs in canada in response to the covid 19 pandemic |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01301-6 |
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