Gardening for Health: Using Garden Coordinators and Volunteers to Implement Rural School and Community Gardens

Stluka, Suzanne; McCormack, Lacey; Burdette, Linda; Dvorak, Samantha; Knight, Nathania; Lindvall, Rachel E.; Pierce, Lauren; Schoch, Jason; Walkling, Prairey

doi:10.5888/pcd16.190117

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“…A motivated student/group of students can run a programme for a while; however, once these students graduate or move on, if a line of succession is not established then a programme can quickly fall into disorder. This has been evidenced in garden programmes where a dedicated garden coordinator is needed for the sustainability of the community, school or campus‐based gardens (Stluka et al, 2019; Ullevig et al, 2021). The responsibility of the programmes or where the programme was housed on campus could determine the availability of staff oversight, resources and funding.…”

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Campus‐based programmes to address food insecurity vary in leadership, funding and evaluation strategies

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College food insecurity is a known detriment to student success, but little is known about the implementation of campus-based programmes to help address this issue on campus in the United States. The objective of this research study was to determine the types of food insecurity initiatives implemented and assess how such programmes are managed, funded, and evaluated. A cross-sectional, 23-item online survey was administered among individuals involved with campus food insecurity initiatives identified through professional networks. Food pantries were the most common (97.1%) and mobile food sharing applications were the least common (14.7%) food security initiatives. A majority of respondents (69.7%) stated that at least one programme on their campus was evaluated, although the methods varied and uncertainty about the methods used was common. An allocated budget was provided at some institutions (38.9%), but funding mechanisms varied. Student Life Offices were most commonly reported as being responsible for programme management. Most respondents (75.3%) reported there had been programme changes due to COVID-19. This research confirmed that food insecurity programmes are widely available, although the type, funding,

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“…However, such an intervention may have limited value in urban areas due to complications surrounding land pressures, hygiene, disease spread and environmental pollution [ 49 , 50 ]. Related to this are the existing interventions that give households or communities the resources to grow their own food in local gardens [ 51 , 52 ]. In this study, no association was found between growing food and household food insecurity, individual dietary diversity, or individual BMI.…”

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Cross-Sectional Association of Food Source with Food Insecurity, Dietary Diversity and Body Mass Index in Western Kenya

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The triple burden of malnutrition in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is partly a result of changing food environments and a shift from traditional diets to high-calorie Western-style diets. Exploring the relationship between food sources and food- and nutrition-related outcomes is important to understanding how changes in food environments may affect nutrition in LMICs. This study examined associations of household food source with household food insecurity, individual dietary diversity and individual body mass index in Western Kenya. Interview-administered questionnaire and anthropometric data from 493 adults living in 376 randomly-selected households were collected in 2019. Adjusted regression analyses were used to assess the association of food source with measures of food insecurity, dietary diversity and body mass index. Notably, participants that reported rearing domesticated animals for consumption (‘own livestock’) had lower odds of moderate or severe household food insecurity (odds ratio (OR) = 0.29 (95% CI: 0.09, 0.96)) and those that reported buying food from supermarkets had lower odds of moderate or severe household food insecurity (borderline significant, OR = 0.37 (95% CI: 0.14, 1.00)), increased dietary diversity scores (Poisson coefficient = 0.17 (95% CI: 0.10, 0.24)) and higher odds of achieving minimum dietary diversity (OR = 2.84 (95% CI: 1.79, 4.49)). Our findings provide insight into the relationship between food environments, dietary patterns and nutrition in Kenya, and suggest that interventions that influence household food source may impact the malnutrition burden in this context.

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“…Local food systems are complex webs of actors and activities involved in food procurement, distribution, processing/preservation, consumption, and disposal at the community or regional level (Edge, 2013). Some common examples of interventions aimed at strengthening LFSs include financial vouchers for beneficiaries to purchase healthy food through farmers' or community markets (Dimitri et al, 2014;Community Food Centres Canada, 2018); school and community garden programs (Stluka et al, 2019); and incentives for local food growers to manage food production costs, raise their income, and pass savings onto people (Sitaker et al, 2014). Such interventions are concentrated within the food procurement, distribution, and consumption components of LFSs and often target behavioral change in individuals, whereby people are expected to make healthy food choices.…”

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Fostering food preservation practice: Lessons from a community train-the-trainer program on Canada's west coast

Oloko

Reed²,

Robson³

2022

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Local food systems programs in Canada's rural and remote communities support residents to improve their access to healthy food by strengthening various social practices within the system. Designing programs to strengthen social practices can help address food insecurity by providing a support structure where people can build competencies and access materials necessary to engage in practices like food preservation, and make meanings that will encourage them to sustain their engagement. The elements needed for successfully establishing a social practice–competencies, materials, and meanings–must be present. Unfortunately, food preservation programs in Canada's local food systems have not fully embedded structures to bring all three elements of social practice together or undertake a participant-focused program assessment. Consequently, we do not know the potential of local food preservation to meet peoples' various needs or the challenges that program participants experience practicing food preservation. This paper uses a social practice framework to determine the extent to which a community food preservation program on Canada's west coast strengthened the three elements of social practice. Findings from interviews show that in line with the paper's three objectives, participants of a community train-the-trainer program (1) built and shared food preservation competencies, (2) accessed materials to practice food preservation, and (3) formed meanings to support their continuous engagement in food preservation. The paper shows how a social practice framework can support a participant-focused program evaluation and provide a practical and straightforward tool for assessing food systems programs.

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Gardening for Health: Using Garden Coordinators and Volunteers to Implement Rural School and Community Gardens

Cited by 13 publications

References 11 publications

Campus‐based programmes to address food insecurity vary in leadership, funding and evaluation strategies

Campus‐based programmes to address food insecurity vary in leadership, funding and evaluation strategies

Cross-Sectional Association of Food Source with Food Insecurity, Dietary Diversity and Body Mass Index in Western Kenya

Fostering food preservation practice: Lessons from a community train-the-trainer program on Canada's west coast

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