Planting roots: Urban agriculture for senior immigrants

Beckie, Marie; Bogdan, Eva

doi:10.5304/jafscd.2010.012.004

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“…dismantling of social services and privatisation of public land as in Tornaghi 2014), it is nonetheless important to be wary of reading deprived people's interests as only consumption-increasing strategies, while most often many gardeners combine the two ideas of improving urban ecologies and having extra means for helping the need (Flachs, 2010). As a matter of fact, urban gardens are frequently described as initiatives improving the environmental and social quality of city space through solidarity, socialisation and education activities (Wekerle et al, 2009); community-building (Beckie & Bogdan, 2010) and contrasting food insecurity (Emmet, 2010;Milbourne, 2012Alkon & Agyeman,2011Schmelzkopf, 1995).…”

Section: A New Political Activism In the City?mentioning

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Political gardening. Transforming cities and political agency

Certomà

Tornaghi

2015

Local Environment

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Section: A New Political Activism In the City?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Political gardening. Transforming cities and political agency

Certomà

Tornaghi

2015

Local Environment

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“…UA is also a way to promote cultural and cross-generational integration. Several urban farm and community garden projects allow immigrants to cultivate food to sell and consume 3,5,7,8,29,37 . In others, cross-generation sharing and integration between youth and seniors occurred 9,21,23,38,39 .…”

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Gearing up to support urban farming in California: Preliminary results of a needs assessment

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Feenstra

Golden

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Renew. Agric. Food Syst.

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According to the United States Census, California is the most urban state in the nation. Although there are many outstanding examples of urban farms in California, in general, urban agriculture (UA) has been slower to gain momentum here than in some other states with large urban populations. Over the past several years, urban agriculture's popularity in California has begun to escalate, with strong emerging interest in San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, San Diego, Los Angeles and other metropolitan communities. One challenge for urban farmers and municipal decision makers engaged with UA in California has been limited availability of relevant information and technical assistance. A new project team at the University of California Cooperative Extension, part of the Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR) is working to develop web-based educational resources that will be grounded in a needs assessment that is currently underway. The needs assessment includes a literature review, an internal survey of UC ANR personnel, and community clientele interviews. This paper will report on preliminary findings and analyses of the needs assessment, particularly how UC ANR personnel are engaged with UA, and what tools they think would best serve urban farmers. We suggest implications for those involved with UA, such as personnel of land-grant universities, local governments and non-profits seeking to address the needs of urban farmers in an environment of constrained resources.

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“…The forms and organization of urban gardens are highly context dependent (Ferris et al 2001), but in general these encompass community gardens (Mckay 2011), guerrilla gardening spots (Tracey 2007), and urban allotments (Crouch and Ward 1997). Gardens are intended for education, leisure and socialization (Purcell 2002); for contrasting food insecurity (McClintock 2008;Pinkerton and Hopkins 2009;Milbourne 2012) and social disadvantages (Emmet 2011); for community building (Hinchliffe and Whatmore 2006;Beckie and Bogdan 2010); for health promotion (Barker 2000;Wakefield et al 2007); for involving marginalized social groups in city life (Flachs 2010); and for advancing environmentally friendly lifestyles (Barton 2000;Miller 2005;Bendt et al 2013). In order to reach their goals, gardeners often establish links with similar grassroots initiatives, including for instance alternative economic networks (kurtz 2001), transient cities programmes, urban green renovation projects (Pagano and Bowman 2000), or initiatives in sustainable mobility (Calori 2009).…”

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‘A New Season for Planning’: Urban Gardening as Informal Planning in Rome

Certomà

2016

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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This article investigates the relationship between urban gardening and planning by building upon the results of field research on gardening initiatives in the city of Rome, Italy. The work is aimed at suggesting that, while often associated in geography and planning literature with urban informality practices (e.g. accidental city or self‐made urbanism), urban gardening actually presents the character of a distinctive form of people's interaction with urban space, here defined as “informal planning”. This includes practices that are intentionally put forward by local dwellers with the intention of urban space planning and organizing public life in the absence of legal definition, guidance and funds provided by public authorities or the private sector. Urban gardening cases in Rome exemplify the emergence of informal planning and show how, by questioning the counterplanning tradition that understands urban gardening as an antagonist spatial practice opposing institutional planning, informal planning can open up collaborative possibilities. A new mode of interaction between citizens' agency and the formal planning initiatives of local administration can lead to creative solutions to address some of the problems associated with the neoliberal transformation of the city space, most notably the decrease in public space and its deterioration.

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Planting roots: Urban agriculture for senior immigrants

Cited by 40 publications

References 9 publications

Political gardening. Transforming cities and political agency

Political gardening. Transforming cities and political agency

Gearing up to support urban farming in California: Preliminary results of a needs assessment

‘A New Season for Planning’: Urban Gardening as Informal Planning in Rome

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