Exploring the social bases of home gardening

Schupp, Justin; Sharp, Jeff S.

doi:10.1007/s10460-011-9321-2

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“…In this study, participants reported growing cultural or ethnic foods such as bok choy, gogi berries, chayote and green tomatoes. Similar to other research projects, many families in this study grew foods that had meaning in terms of their identity as individuals and their personal and community history (Fruge et al 2014;Schupp and Sharp 2012). The agrobiodiversity of the garden contributes to nutrition and food security by increasing the intake of culturally unique vegetables.…”

Section: Increasing Vegetable Consumptionmentioning

confidence: 87%

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Community and home gardens increase vegetable intake and food security of residents in San Jose, California

Algert¹,

Diekmann²,

Renvall³

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Section: Increasing Vegetable Consumptionmentioning

confidence: 87%

“…security for an extended network of family and friends should be explored further (Schupp and Sharp 2012). Limitations of our study include the small sample size, the unknown degree of bias due to self-selection and the potential for recall bias in self reporting.…”

Section: Increasing Vegetable Consumptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Community and home gardens increase vegetable intake and food security of residents in San Jose, California

Algert¹,

Diekmann²,

Renvall³

et al. 2016

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“…Nabhan 2002, Renting et al 2003, Selfa and Qazi 2005, Maxey 2006, Steel 2008, Little et al 2009). In the Western social context, literature on FSP explores a range of questions, including the relative importance of economic versus other motivations for participating in FSP (Teitelbaum andBeckley 2006, Schupp andSharp 2012), the extent to which FSP can be considered a form of food localism (McEntee 2010, Schupp andSharp 2012), labour and gender constraints on people's involvement in FSP (McIntyre and Rondeau 2011), the contribution of FSP to local food security and as a source of nutritious food (Shaw 2006, Kortright andWakefield 2011) and the role of spatial planning in facilitating and shaping FSP practices (Adams et al 2013). 3 While there are clearly important differences between promoting organically certified food and food bought directly from a small farmer, ENGO campaigns on these food alternatives rather than FSP could be criticised as being part of an ongoing process of corporatisation or neoliberalisation within ENGOs: unlike FSP, those food alternatives rely on monetised market transactions (e.g.…”

Section: Scholarship On Environmental Activism and Afnsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Taylor and Taylor Lovell's (2014, p. 285) "manifesto for the study of home gardens in the Global North" as well as exploratory research into the social base of this form of AFNs (Schupp and Sharp 2012), the barriers to its diffusion (Schupp et al 2015), its environmental sustainability dimensions and its contributions to equity and social justice (Jehlička and Smith 2011, Turner 2011, Smith and Jehlička 2013 have occurred only in the last five years.…”

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confidence: 99%

Reluctant pioneers in the European periphery? Environmental activism, food consumption and “growing your own”

Hoop

Jehlička

2017

Local Environment

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East European food self-provisioning (FSP) has fascinated scholars of post-socialism ever since the early 1990s. In keeping with its predominantly economic and cultural conceptualisations, much of this research has been concerned with FSP's role in household economy and with the social profile of its practitioners. In contrast to western conceptualisations of FSP as an opportunity to expand food activism and foster social justice and environmental sustainability, post-socialist FSP has rarely been considered as such. In Czechia, FSP is practised by 43% of citizens and many of them do so in a relatively environmentally friendly way. Yet, most food-related campaigns run by environmental NGOs (ENGOs) pay little attention to FSP and focus on market-based ethical consumerism and alternative food networks instead. Using insights from actor-network theory, this paper discusses how Czech ENGO activists engage with FSP through discourse and in practice. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with leading activists, we show that FSP does figure in non-food-related campaigns and that the FSP practised by activists themselves or the FSP carried out by relatives and relatives' friends are not the same as the FSP on which they are reluctant to campaign. These differences, which include controllability and the time-consuming nature of practising FSP according to some of the activists' ideals, help this paper to come to an initial understanding of why Czech ENGOs do not run campaigns explicitly focused on FSP at the moment and shed some light on how this could change in the future. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…In the UK, while demand for allotment sites has waxed and waned, it peaked in 1997 with 296 923 plots established in England and a waiting list of 12 950 people (Gaynor, 2006). The current uptake of backyard food cultivation in developed countries has been partly attributed to popular environmental writers and speciality gardening and cooking shows promoting domestic food production for the masses (Schupp & Sharp, 2011). Australia's re-engagement with community gardening and productive backyard gardening also started in the 1970s.…”

Section: Community and Backyard Food Gardeningmentioning

confidence: 99%

A reflexive discourse of the local place: urban food gardeners in Brisbane, Australia

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In response to the dissatisfaction with the pitfalls of the corporatised global food system over the last two decades, urban dwellers in the Global North have begun to implement alternative food initiatives (AFIs). AFIs tend to be underpinned by discourses of localism with discursive emphasis on the local place where communities can embed food production and distribution with an ethics of care, social justice and ecological responsibility. Urban AFIs consist of biochemical free production initiatives such as: commercial urban agriculture projects (city farms); growing food on sidewalk verges, vacant land and in community and backyard gardens; and distribution initiatives of crop swaps; farmers' markets; and box schemes. This thesis builds on a growing body of research that often discuss the constructions of localism discourses with some arguing that AFIs in the developed world should realise a 'reflexive' localism underpinned by a discourse that acknowledges issues at scales other than the geographic point of local system i.e. discursive emphasis on structural political change at state and global scales.Critics of many current AFIs claim that the lack of capacity of AFIs to challenge, or at least offer a viable alternative to, the corporatised global food system is partly due to practitioners' articulations of an 'unreflexive' discourse of defensive localism. The discourse of defensive localism embeds a non-negotiable geographic boundary enclosing a particular cohort's personal sentiments and values, which are unrepresentative of local issues at that particular place. An 'unreflexive' discourse of defensive localism includes discursive emphasis on personal responsibility, voluntary action, competition and efficiency.This thesis examines this phenomenon and is based on theorisations of subjective reflexivity and constructions of discourses at the local place, focusing on urban backyard and community garden food gardeners in the city of Brisbane, Australia. The question addressed by this thesis is: Are urban food gardeners in Brisbane, Australia merely growing food or reflexively constructing the local place as a response to a dysfunctional food system?The research question is explored using a qualitative, social constructivist epistemology.Using a methodology of discourse analysis, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 19 urban food gardeners who produced some of their household food requirements in community gardens and household backyards. Urban food gardeners viewed the iv hegemonic food system in Queensland as dysfunctional based on perceptions of the ecologically unsound, mechanised cultivation practices and unequal power relations that favour large scale food retailers over farmers -interpretations that conform in many respects to Marx's concept of metabolic rift.Interpretations of gardeners' strategies and motivations were theorised using Farrugia's (2013) 'reflexive subjectivity theory' along with food and agriculture studies that approach the implications of constructions of localism dis...

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Exploring the social bases of home gardening

Cited by 100 publications

References 22 publications

Community and home gardens increase vegetable intake and food security of residents in San Jose, California

Community and home gardens increase vegetable intake and food security of residents in San Jose, California

Reluctant pioneers in the European periphery? Environmental activism, food consumption and “growing your own”

A reflexive discourse of the local place: urban food gardeners in Brisbane, Australia

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