Biodiverse edible schools: Linking healthy food, school gardens and local urban biodiversity

Fischer, Leonie K.; Brinkmeyer, Daniel; Karle, Stefanie Josefine; Cremer, Kathrine; Huttner, Eva; Seebauer, Martin; Nowikow, Ulrich; Schütze, B.; Voigt, Paula; Völker, Simone; Kowarik, Ingo

doi:10.1016/j.ufug.2018.02.015

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“…Foraging approaches can be integrated in environmental education as illustrated by the concept of the "biodiverse edible school" that seeks to involve both cultivated and wild-growing edible plants in environmental and food education [77]. Approaches towards biodiversity-friendly management of green spaces [78] can be enriched by practices that contribute to offering a wide selection of forageable resources and gathering niches for urban foragers.…”

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Urban Foraging in Berlin: People, Plants and Practices within the Metropolitan Green Infrastructure

2018

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Gathering wild plants in cities (urban foraging) is likely an important, but understudied human-nature interaction globally. As large European cities are critically understudied in this regard, we performed in-depth ethnography-based interviews in Berlin, Germany, to shed light on the cultural background of foragers, their motivations and which plants and fungi are gathered for which purposes. Results demonstrate multiple uses of 125 taxa, mostly frequently-occurring species but also some Red List species, from a range of formal and informal greenspace types. Both native and non-native species were gathered, with significant differences in use patterns. Use for food was most common, followed by medicinal uses, and personal enjoyment was a frequent motivation, indicating that urban foraging combines provisioning and cultural ecosystem services. Familial and childhood foraging exposure were common, pointing to influences of early-in-life exposure on later-in-life activities and transgenerational aspects of the practice. Results further suggest legacy effects from the post-war and communist eras on foraging knowledge. Although non-commercial foraging is allowed in Berlin, over-harvesting was not evident. Interviews indicate that stewardship of urban biodiversity is common among foragers. Results thus suggest considering urban foraging as a promising vehicle for linking humans with nature when developing a biodiverse urban green infrastructure.

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2018

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“…Urban agriculture and EGI can play a unique role in sustainability by linking urban growers and consumers in a common system that is mutually supportive (Palmer, 2018). The recent movement toward developing an "edible" green-based society, with formal and informal elements, links urban green space development with food issues driven by grassroots movements and urban administrations (Fischer et al, 2018;Russo et al, 2017). Urban agriculture and EGI can use applied sustainable regenerative principles to better urban environments.…”

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“…First, in the city of Andernach, Germany, labelled an edible city, residents grow edible plants in public green spaces. This practice, conducted for a number of reasons, include: (1) to raise awareness for local food where people can harvest for free, (2) to help people eat healthily, (3) to integrate different sociocultural groups into using and managing the urban food system and (4) to inspire public debate about how to develop urban space (Fischer et al, 2018). Second, the city of Todmorden in West Yorkshire, United Kingdom, in which since 2007 has been the focal point of PALGRAVE COMMUNICATIONS | https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-019-0377-8 COMMENT PALGRAVE COMMUNICATIONS | (2019) 5:163 | https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-019-0377-8 | www.nature.com/palcomms the pioneering social movement called Incredible Edible (IE), which uses locally grown food as a way to enrich communities.…”

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“…The experience of Taipei's initiative raises a series of important questions concerning the establishment and management of an urban gardening programme in a large metropolitan area where no such effort has existed previously (Hou, 2018). Edible city solutions are growing and show a strong potential for participatory social cohesion, growth that has demonstrated emancipatory citizen engagement and effective inclusive urban regeneration (Fischer et al, 2019;Kohler et al, 2019;Kowalski and Conway, 2018;Landor-Yamagata et al, 2018;Stoltz and Schaffer, 2018;Talen, 1999).…”

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Edible urbanism 5.0

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Cirella

2019

Palgrave Commun

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Urban and peri-urban agriculture can have negative effects (i.e., ecosystem disservices) to the city ecosystem. In the last two decades, urbanists and landscape planners have promoted urban agriculture and food systems with little attention to ecosystem disservices. At present, increased urbanisation, environmental degradation, population growth and changes in food systems require a novel concept that considers trade-offs between ecosystem services and disservices. Considering the Sustainable Development Goal 2 of ending hunger and all forms of malnutrition by 2030, as well as the food revolution 5.0 of feeding up to ten billion people, edible urbanism 5.0 is a supportive component in reaching these goals. In this comment, edible urbanism via an edible green infrastructure (EGI) approach is examined against current urbanistic concepts that have common food production systems in cities. Moreover, a discussion on issues and challenges of public policy and governance for the implementation of sustainable food systems is shown with findings that consider current industrial intensive farming as somewhat unsustainable. Edible urbanism integrates three main principles of sustainability by fulfilling food security, resilience and social inclusion. It links site-specific, best-practices by integrating EGI-based governance with modernised food production techniques. Example cities showing EGI-and sustainability-oriented food concepts are presented. Recommendations for future edible urbanism (as a part of the next food revolution) are established.

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“…through developing design techniques, neighbourhoods can create edible landscape with decorative, productive, and other functions in a densely built urban environment. among these edible landscapes, edible campuses are a common type which helps to demonstrate how edible landscape can be woven into urban spaces [6] and connected to the sustainability of urban development [8]. For instance, bhatt et al [6] reported the edible campus project turning underutilized urban spaces into productive places by incorporating ecological containers to grow crops on paved areas on the downtown campus of mcgill University (Fig.…”

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Users’ perceptions and attitudes towards edible campus

Lee¹,

Chou²,

Huang³

2019

Int. J. DNE

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Urban agriculture has been regarded as a strategy towards sustainable urban development. it can transform abandoned or underutilized public or semi-public lands into productive space with landscape plants as well as edible crops. similar to other green space, the edible landscape can provide a range of ecosystem services. However, it could also encounter vandalism and require more inputs into the maintenance, such as irrigation, fertilizing, weeding, pest control, pruning, and harvesting. thus, the way in which how users perceive edible landscape can affect the delivery of the concept. among the edible landscape, edible campus is one of the most popular types. they are semi-public space, which surrounds public institutions and is open to the public while imposes a set of stricter rules on users' behaviours than outside. given the qualities, edible landscape may be more likely to be delivered and maintained in such a semi-public space than in a public space. in taiwan, edible campuses are often at an elementary school level. colleges and universities, on the other hand, have their own farms to support agriculture-related practicums and thus pay less attention to the creation of edible campus. However, campuses at a college or university level tend to be more open to the public than at other educational level. given its semi-public quality, they serve as a pertinent case to explore how users view edible landscape. through survey, this study collects 406 data from onsite distribution between march and april in 2017 in national chiayi University, taiwan. the results reveal that although the concept is unfamiliar to most of the users, they are willing to support the idea of edible campus. in addition, the findings show that users' positive knowledge of edible landscape has association with their support for edible landscape. However, the users' knowledge perception does not have association with their support.

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Biodiverse edible schools: Linking healthy food, school gardens and local urban biodiversity

Cited by 72 publications

References 66 publications

Urban Foraging in Berlin: People, Plants and Practices within the Metropolitan Green Infrastructure

Urban Foraging in Berlin: People, Plants and Practices within the Metropolitan Green Infrastructure

Edible urbanism 5.0

Users’ perceptions and attitudes towards edible campus

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