Home gardens are an essential component of the local food system and family farming
worldwide. In Indonesia, a home food gardening program was initiated in the early 2010s to …

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, rural-dwelling people in high-income countries were
known to have greater challenges accessing healthy food than their urban counterparts. The …

Urban green spaces, like community gardens, received increased attention during the
COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing from an ethnographic study on participating in community …

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries experienced something of a boom in
interest in gardening. Gardens have long been considered as refuges into which we retreat …

There is a significant amount of evidence highlighting the health, wellbeing and social
benefits of gardening during previous periods of crises. These benefits were also evident …

Urban agriculture in home gardens builds resilience, improves health and food security,
provides ecological and environmental benefits and connects people back to nature. This …

Urban agriculture is the key to creating healthy cities and developing resilient urban food
systems in uncertain times. However, relevant empirical evidence is limited. This study …

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way people live in an unprecedented way.
This includes severe impacts on people's health and wellbeing such as stress, reduced …

The COVID-19 pandemic impacted mental health. Growing research has identified the
mental health benefits of nature contact, including gardening. We used a cross-sectional …

Both food insecurity and home and wild food procurement (HWFP), including gardening,
increased in many countries during the COVID-19 pandemic; yet little evidence has …