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Growing a life : teen gardeners harvest food, health, and joy /
Candid interviews with teens from disadvantaged neighborhoods, plus supporting studies, show how gardening programs grow healthier minds bodies and communities. Part engaging conversation, part comprehensive fieldwork, Growing a Life demonstrates just how influential educational and community garden...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[New York, NY] :
New Village Press,
2016.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Gratitude; Preface: Do Our Brains Change While We Garden?; Introduction: Why Teens? Why Gardens?; 1. The Green Bronx Machine; 2. Planting Trees, Tomatoes, and Transformation; 3. The Sustainable Technology Effect; 4. The Challenges These Gardeners Face; 5. Choosing Higher Education; 6. Sowing Seeds for Success; 7. Gardens Grow Healthy Youth; 8. ¡Cultiva! A Market and Youth Leadership Garden; 9. Colorado Rocky Mountain School: Work Crew Gardeners; 10. Roaring Fork High School Grows Food for Lunch and Sustainability Education
- 11. Teen Mothers Garden at Yampah Mountain High School12. Adolescent Health and the Food Environment: What Difference Can a Garden Make?; 13. Oakland: Gangs or Gardens?; 14. Changing the Urban Food Desert; 15. Harvesting Responsibility; 16. Youth Reach Out to the Community; 17. A Mentor Goes the Extra Mile; 18. Love Cultivating Schoolyards; 19. Building a Garden Builds Us; 20. Game Theory, Optimizing a Food Business; 21. Taos: Ancient Traditions, Young Farmers; 22. Sembrando Semillas: Community Irrigation, Ancient to Modern; 23. Feed the Hood
- 24. Physiological and Neurological Research: Clues to Why Gardening Benefits the Gardener25. Cultivating Health, Happiness, and Peace; References