Community gardens are viewed as a potentially useful environmental change strategy to promote active and healthy lifestyles but the scientific evidence base for gardens is limited. As a step towards understanding whether gardens are a viable health promotion strategy for local communities, we set out to examine the social processes that might explain the connection between gardens, garden parti...

Experimental research shows that there are perceived and actual benefits to spending time in natural spaces compared to urban spaces, such as reduced cognitive fatigue, improved mood, and reduced stress. Whereas past research has focused primarily on distinguishing between distinct categories of spaces (i.e., nature vs. urban), less is known about variability in perceived restorative potential ...

A review of findings shows that Persian gardens have attracted a wide area of interests between psychologists and environment designers. The main reasons behind the attraction of Persian gardens are natural content and particular landscape configuration. To study these features, overall organization examination is employed according to psychological pattern. One of the impressive psychological ...

Background: The potential contribution of allotment gardens to a healthy and active life-style is increasingly recognized, especially for elderly populations. However, few studies have empirically examined beneficial effects of allotment gardening. In the present study the health, well-being and physical activity of older and younger allotment gardeners was compared to that of controls without ...

The article attempts to check whether there is spatial regularity in the relationship between model of agricultural and productive use allotment gardens leisure recreational model. also presents socio-demographic features users nowadays defining plots gardens. objectives were achieved by means a direct inventory questionnaire survey conducted among five gardens: one located Łódź four western pa...

Twenty community garden programs in upstate New York (representing 63 gardens) were surveyed to identify characteristics that may be useful to facilitate neighborhood development and health promotion. The most commonly expressed reasons for participating in gardens were access to fresh foods, to enjoy nature, and health benefits. Gardens in low-income neighborhoods (46%) were four times as like...

The QUT’s Gardens project aims to create a virtual parallel machine out of a network of nondedicated computers (workstations/PCs). These systems are interconnected through low latency and high bandwidth communication links such as Myrinet. Gardens is an integrated programming language and system designed to utilize the idle workstation’s CPU cycles to support adaptive parallel computing. A Gard...