Alternative Food Systems at Ground Level: The Fairbanks Community Garden

Meadow, Alison M.

doi:10.5038/2162-4593.16.1.6

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“…Fees, insurance, and maintenance costs were predominantly discussed as barriers [36,43,44,56,68,71,73,89,108]. This perspective was shared by two German cases.…”

Section: Economic and Financialmentioning

confidence: 99%

Placemaking in Action: Factors That Support or Obstruct the Development of Urban Community Gardens

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The paper examines factors that support or obstruct the development of urban community garden projects. It combines a systematic scholarly literature review with empirical research from case studies located in New Zealand and Germany. The findings are discussed against the backdrop of placemaking processes: urban community gardens are valuable platforms to observe space-to-place transformations. Following a social-constructionist approach, literature-informed enablers and barriers for the development of urban community gardens are analysed against perceived notions informed by local interviewees with regard to their biophysical and technical, socio-cultural and economic, and political and administrative dimensions. These dimensions are incorporated into a systematic and comprehensive category system. This approach helps observe how the essential biophysical-material base of the projects is overlaid with socio-cultural factors and shaped by governmental or administrative regulations. Perceptual differences become evident and are discussed through the lens of different actors.

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“…Fees, insurance, and maintenance costs were predominantly discussed as barriers [36,43,44,56,68,71,73,89,108]. This perspective was shared by two German cases.…”

Section: Economic and Financialmentioning

confidence: 99%

Placemaking in Action: Factors That Support or Obstruct the Development of Urban Community Gardens

et al. 2020

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“…The Alaska Grown advertising campaign seeks to brand food grown within the state, and Alaska has an active, though financially challenged, farm-to-school movement. There are also efforts to increase the number of community gardens (McCoy, 2015;Meadow, 2013), primarily in urban areas. Similarly, interest in year-long gardening is increasing, often accomplished by repurposing abandoned buildings and shipping containers (DeMarban, 2015(DeMarban, , 2016.…”

Section: Discourses Prominent In Alaskamentioning

confidence: 99%

The Importance of Local Foods to Users of Food Pantries in Accessible Rural Alaska

Burke

Durr

Reamer

2018

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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Discussions of food security in Alaska normally focus on locally grown foods, Alaska Native subsistence, or poverty, but the intersection between these aspects of food security within Alaskan society have only been examined in the context of urban communities or remote, rural communities. In this paper, we draw attention to a neglected group of communities, rural, mostly non-Native communities accessible by ground transportation. We weave the three discourses of food security together by examining how lowincome people within a specific context incorporate home-grown produce and wild proteins into their diets, thereby expanding the meaning of "local" food. We conducted interviews with users of food pantries and find that some are able to garden and/or hunt and fish-and that this ability may enhance their food security. We discuss ways

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“…They are not intended to generate profit, though they may (and do) contribute to livelihoods and food security in other ways (Zezza & Tasciotti, 2010;Blair, Giesecke, & Sherman, 1991;Alaimo, et. al., 2007;Meadow, 2013;Poulsen, et. al., 2015;Gallaher, et.…”

Section: Literature Review and The Historical Development Of Urban Ga...mentioning

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Urban Gardens vs. Community Gardens: Tensions and Trajectories for Urban Agriculture in Istanbul

Turkkan

2023

MOMENT

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Through a discussion of ongoing urban gardening practices in Yedikule Bostanlari and Kuzguncuk Bostani, this paper analyzes the food movement’s convoluted relationship with urban agriculture in Istanbul. The paper argues that as urban agriculture initiatives both are significant for generating community and proposing alternative uses for urban space by fostering food production in the city. Yet, the kind of community they generate and the type of urban agriculture they espouse to conserve are different. More importantly, as urban food production spaces, they do relatively little to mitigate the effects of structural problems that the food movement has underlined. As such, even though they are examples of urban agriculture in practicum, their aspirations do not readily associate with those of the food movement.

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Alternative Food Systems at Ground Level: The Fairbanks Community Garden

Cited by 6 publications

References 11 publications

Placemaking in Action: Factors That Support or Obstruct the Development of Urban Community Gardens

Placemaking in Action: Factors That Support or Obstruct the Development of Urban Community Gardens

The Importance of Local Foods to Users of Food Pantries in Accessible Rural Alaska

Urban Gardens vs. Community Gardens: Tensions and Trajectories for Urban Agriculture in Istanbul

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