Urban Farming - Indianapolis

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Topic: Mental Health

"mental health" AND "urban gardening" 

• Academic 

  • How Gardening in Detroit Influences Physical and Mental Health (2022)

  • Evidence on the contribution of community gardens to promote physical and mental health and well-being of non-institutionalized individuals (2021)

• Non-academic

  • Seeding a Tradition (2022)

  • The nature fix (2021)

"mental health" AND "urban farming" 

• Academic 

  • How does urban farming benefit participants’ health? A case study of allotments and experience farms in Tokyo.  (2021)

  • Practices of Care and Relationship-Building: a Qualitative Analysis of Urban Agriculture’s Impacts on Black People’s Agency and Wellbeing in Philadelphia (2023)

• Non-academic

  • Urban Farming-A Solution to Post Pandemic Life (2020)

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Topic: Food Waste

"food waste" AND "urban gardening" 

• Academic

  • Food repair: An analysis of the tensions between preventing waste and assuring safety (2019)

• Non-academic 

  • Chicago Green Campus Plans to Turn Food Waste to Energy and Grow More Food (2022)

  • NRDC’s Keating Keen to Reduce Food Waste Across U.S. Cities (2020)

"food waste" AND "urban farming" 

• Non-academic

  • Why tackling food waste is the key to the Earth’s future (2023)

  • Complete trash (2020)

  • Baltimore is one of two cities picked for food waste management program (2018)

"food waste" AND "gardening" 

• Academic

  • Playing with Food Waste: Experimenting with Ethical Entanglements in the Anthropocene (2019)

  • Integration of food waste composting and vegetable gardens in a university campus. (2021)

  • Dumpster Diving for a Better World: Explaining Unconventional Protest and Public Support for Actions against Food Waste. (2021)

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Topic: Sustainability

"sustainability" AND "urban gardening" 

• Academic

  • Tracing regime influence on urban community gardening: How resource dependence causes barriers to garden longer term sustainability (2018)

  • Urban gardening - an integrative approach (2019)

  • Pathways of learning about biodiversity and sustainability in private urban gardens. (2020)

• Non-academic

  • City of Dreams practices eco-efficient urban gardening (2019)

"sustainability" AND "urban farming" 

• Academic

  • The importance of urban farming in the context of global sustainable development (2022)

  • Sustainability communication through bio-based experiential learning (2022)

  • Whose Sustainability? An Analysis of Community Farming Program’s Food Justice and Environmental Sustainability Agenda. (2019)

• Non-academic

  • Sustainable nutrition to nourish people and planet. (2023)

  • Urban farming fights ‘food apartheid’ during pandemic: 1 in 4 Black Americans deal with insecurity as calls grow for self-sustainability. (2021)

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Topic: Racism

"racism" AND "urban gardening" 

• Academic

  • The tale of two community gardens: green aesthetics versus food justice in the big apple (2020)

  • Making Spaces Something Like Freedom: Black Feminist Praxis in the Re/Imagining of a Just Food System (2021)

• Non-academic

  • A Black family is fighting racism in agriculture and climate change (2021)

  • Critical care: Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet (2019)

  • Protest Kitchen: Fight Injustice, Save the Planet, and Fuel Your Resistance One Meal at a Time (2018)

"racism" AND "urban farming" 

• Academic

  • Practices of Care and Relationship-Building: A Qualitative Analysis of Urban Agriculture’s Impacts on Black People’s Agency and Wellbeing in Philadelphia (2023)

  • “Building Together”: City at Text, Intersectionality, and Urban Farming during Covid-19 (2021)

  • Urban Farming is Going High Tech (2020)

  • Proximity of Urban Farms to Contaminated Sites in Baltimore, Maryland (2021)

• Non-academic

  • Resilience for All: Striving for Equity Through Community-Driven Design (2018)

  • Food (Justice) for Thought. (2021)

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Topic: Poverty; Inflation; Food Deserts

“poverty” AND "urban gardening" 

• Academic

  • Beyond markets: food poverty and the noncommercial food system. (2021)

  • Neighbourhood characteristics and urban gardens in the Toledo metropolitan area: staffing and voluntarism, food production, infrastructure, and sustainability practices. (2018)

  • Without permission: guerilla gardening, contested places, spatial justice (2022)

  • Community gardens and their efforts on diet, health, psychosocial and community outcomes: a systematic review (2022)

“inflation” AND "urban gardening" 

• Academic

  • Urban nature and public health: How nature exposure and sociocultural background relate to depression risk. (2021)

• Non-academic

  • The future is faster than you think: How converging technologies are transforming business, industries, and our lives (2020)

“food deserts” AND "urban agriculture" 

• Academic

  • From Food Deserts to Just Deserts: Expanding Urban Agriculture in U.S. Cities Through Sustainable Policy (2018)

  • Seeking justice, eating toxics: overlooked contaminants in urban community gardens. (2022)

  • Neighborhood food environments revisited: When food deserts meet food swamps. (2020)

  • Urban and peri-urban agriculture in the global food security conundrum (2021)

• Non-academic

  • A one-two punch for some of Chicago’s poorest residents: Rising prices and food deserts hit low-income Chicaoans especially hard (2022)

  • What’s a Food Desert?  (2020)

  • Fighting Food Insecurity (2021)

  • Ohio explores a new model for urban agriculture: Micro farms in food deserts (2019)

  • Urban farms make a stand against food source redlining: Without access to fresh fruits and vegetables, neighbors fend for themselves (2021)

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Topic: Bees and Monarch Butterflies

"bees" AND "urban gardening" 

• Academic

  • Pathways of learning about biodiversity and sustainability in private urban gardens (2020)

  • Bees in the D: A Message of Conservation from an Urban Environment (2019)

• Non-academic

  • Beginning with Bees (2019)

  • Seeding a Tradition (2022)

  • Fiskars creates bee-friendly garden to mark World Bee Day 2022 (2022)

  • How planting a garden can boost bees, local food and resilience during the coronavirus crisis (2020)

"monarch butterflies" AND "urban gardening" 

• Academic

  • With sustainable use of local inputs, urban agriculture delivers community benefits beyond food (2022)

  • Animals and urban gentrification: Displacement and injustice in the trans-species city. (2021)

  • Creating the Urban Farmer’s Almanac with Citizen Science Data (2019)

• Non-academic

  • Out with the Rats, In With the Butterflies (2020)

  • The lure of the pollen (2021)

  • Mayors of Utah Valley: Monarch butterflies offer wisdom for Utah County communities (2022)