Research exists on using instructional gardening programs with school age children as a means of improving dietary quality and for obesity prevention. This article examines the potential use of instructional gardens in childcare settings to improving fruit and vegetable intake in young children. A qualitative study was conducted with childcare providers. Participants (n = 20) were recruited via...

BACKGROUND The current academic literature suggests there is a potential for using gardening as a tool to improve children's fruit and vegetable intake. This study is two parallel randomised controlled trials (RCT) devised to evaluate the school gardening programme of the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Campaign for School Gardening, to determine if it has an effect on children's fruit and ve...

BACKGROUND Current academic literature suggests that school gardening programmes can provide an interactive environment with the potential to change children's fruit and vegetable intake. This is the first cluster randomised controlled trial (RCT) designed to evaluate whether a school gardening programme can have an effect on children's fruit and vegetable intake. METHODS The trial included c...

The technology which could make our lives prosper within the four walls also help to create own corner of nature nourish. In this paper, we propose a smart gardening system that utilizes concept Internet Things (IoT) [1]. major goal project is reduce water consumption when and maintain garden remotely. Important plant data, like temperature, relative humidity, soil moisture, are continuously st...