A cultural ecosystem service perspective on the interactions between humans and soils in gardens

Teuber, Sandra

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“…Soil health has been defined relative to a soil's ability to support plant and animal health and productivity, as well as water and air quality, within the bounds and context set by ecosystem and climate (Doran & Safley, 1997;Doran, 2002). Urban soils, as a subset of global soil types, are understudied and their role in providing ecosystem services, such as climate regulation (e.g., carbon sequestration), biocontrol, nutrient cycling, and soil formation (Kibblewhite et al, production) and social (e.g., mental/physical health benefits and opportunity for social interaction) services (O'Riordan et al, 2021;Teuber, 2021;Schram-Bijkerk et al, 2018;Rook, 2013;Taylor & Lovell, 2015. Importantly, many ecosystem services provided by urban gardens are interconnected and synergistic, leading to simultaneous benefits for environmental and human health (Schram-Bijkerk et al, 2018).…”

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“…Furthermore, urban soil health has been identified as a key consideration of city planning and soil science (Guilland et al., 2018; Adewopo et al., 2014), in large part because of the growing importance of gardens and other types of greenspace to urban sustainability and resilience (McPhearson et al., 2014). In addition to the aforementioned regulating and supporting services, urban soils found in community and private gardens also provide provisioning (e.g., food, fiber, and medicine production) and social (e.g., mental/physical health benefits and opportunity for social interaction) services (O'Riordan et al., 2021; Teuber, 2021; Schram‐Bijkerk et al., 2018; Rook, 2013; Taylor & Lovell, 2015, 2014). Importantly, many ecosystem services provided by urban gardens are interconnected and synergistic, leading to simultaneous benefits for environmental and human health (Schram‐Bijkerk et al., 2018).…”

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Garden soil bacteria transiently colonize gardeners' skin after direct soil contact

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Wymelenberg

Langellotto

2023

Urban Agric & Regnl Food Sys

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Urban soils provide a number of ecosystem services and health benefits, yet they are understudied compared with agricultural and wildland soils. Healthy soils host diverse microbiota, exposure to which may be critical for immune development and protection against chronic disorders, such as allergies and asthma. Gardening represents a key pathway for microbiota exposure, yet little is known about microbial community structure of urban garden soils, degree of soil‐to‐skin transfer during gardening, nor ability of soil microbes to persist on human skin. To explore these questions, we recruited 40 volunteers to collect soil samples from their gardens and a series of skin swab samples before and after gardening. Soil and skin bacterial communities were characterized using amplicon (16S) sequencing. Soil samples were also analyzed for chemical/physical characteristics. Soil bacterial communities had more alpha diversity and less beta diversity than skin communities, which varied greatly across individuals and within the same individual across time. The number of bacterial taxa shared between skin and garden soil increased immediately after gardening for most study participants. However, the imprint of garden soil largely disappeared within 12 hours. Despite this lack of persistence, a daily gardening routine with repeated and extended contact with soil likely reinoculates the skin such that soil microbes are often present, holding potential to impact health.

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Garden soil bacteria transiently colonize gardeners' skin after direct soil contact

Mhuireach

Wymelenberg

Langellotto

2023

Urban Agric & Regnl Food Sys

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“…Work has encompassed the study of protected areas of high biodiversity value (Martinez‐Harms et al, 2021) alongside the study of extensive and monolithic agricultural landscapes (Case et al, 2020). It has interrogated the urban nature of the mega‐city (Oh et al, 2021) and the cultural landscapes of the garden (Teuber, 2021). It has explored vast stretches of the open sea (Blenckner et al, 2021; Fleming et al, 2019) alongside the micro worlds of the river corridor (Leigh et al, 2019).…”

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People and nature: The emerging signature of a relational journal

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Stepping on invisible land: on the importance of communicating the value of soils

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Soils play fundamental roles in the functioning of the Earth's ecosystems. Despite numerous initiatives to protect soils, it continues to be generally perceived as dirt or, at best, the surface we walk on. To better understand soil perception by the public, we conducted a survey with 99 participants from Poland and Brazil. We applied opportunity sampling and conducted semi-structured interviews with 40 respondents from Poland and 30 from Brazil, and 29 unstructured interviews in Brazil. Most of the respondents (53%) of the semi-structured interviews associated soil with the surface where plants grow, while 27% said that it is the ground we step on. When asked about pro-environmental campaigns, none of the respondents pointed to soil-related initiatives. Most of the respondents (99%) claimed that there is a need to increase their knowledge about the importance of soils, mostly through education (30%). The majority of the respondents of the unstructured interviews in Brazil indicated provision services provided by soils and pointed to the need for youth engagement in soil communication, corroborating the results from the semi-structured interviews. To address this, we present the results on artistic workshops as an experimental model for teaching and dissemination. We present two short documentary movies reporting the results from unstructured interviews and artistic workshops that can be used as data gathering tools, teaching tools and for dissemination purposes. This is a novel approach to communicating with the relevant stakeholders to promote more sustainable resource management.

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A cultural ecosystem service perspective on the interactions between humans and soils in gardens

Abstract: Generally, gardeners rely on soils and their properties for plant cultivation, despite technological developments such as soil-less horticulture (Di Lorenzo et al., 2013) or the modern artificial fertilizer production (Russel & Williams, 1977). While any soil property is a

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References 143 publications

Garden soil bacteria transiently colonize gardeners' skin after direct soil contact

Garden soil bacteria transiently colonize gardeners' skin after direct soil contact

People and nature: The emerging signature of a relational journal

Stepping on invisible land: on the importance of communicating the value of soils

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