With an ever-increasing urban population, promoting public health and well-being in towns and cities is a major challenge. Previous research has suggested that participating in allotment gardening delivers a wide range of health benefits. However, evidence from quantitative analyses is still scarce. Here, we quantify the effects, if any, of participating in allotment gardening on physical, psyc...

The aim of this research is to develop more rational proposal improve the green area on territory Biysk city park in terms its recreation, protective, sanitary and hygienic, aesthetic purposes. inventory plantations was carried out according method V.S. Theodoronsky, I.O. Bogovaya by enumeration survey growing stand area. results areas assessment health are shown work, land-use planning landsca...

ISSUE ADDRESSED This paper describes the Outreach School Garden Project, which was conducted in two remote Indigenous school communities in north-west Queensland. This project integrated nutrition into the key learning areas of the core school curriculum by using a school-based garden as a nutritional education tool. METHODS Evaluation was by a descriptive qualitative approach supplemented by...

Biodrying consists of reducing moisture by using the heat from aerobic bio-degradation. The parameters that control the process are: aeration, temperature during the process, initial moisture of biowaste, and temperature and relative humidity of the input air. Lawn mowing and garden waste from the gardens of the University Jaume I, Castellón (Spain) were used as a substrate. Biodrying was perfo...

Background and objective: This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between psychological effect of visual image tropicalesque flower landscape preference for plants, importance plants on loyalty.Methods: A survey with 105 participants who attended a symposium landscaping, results were analyzed.Results: As result comparatively analyzing indices in terms level gardening activity (...

1 Abstract—Recently, many researchers have studied on animated pedagogical agents to improve students' learning experience in educational systems. In this paper, we describe how personalized pedagogical agents can be applied into AR educational applications. We have developed the augmented gardening system which provides users with opportunity to explore physiological and environmental consider...

Jola women farmers in the Casamance region of southern Senegal use their "traditional" knowledge and farming skills to shift crop repertoires and techniques so as to embark on market-gardening, thus innovating in response to new needs and perceived opportunities. The argument is relevant to present-day concerns about regional food systems and the role of women in securing an income and providin...