Growing a Life : Teen Gardeners Harvest Food, Health, and Joy /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Pevec, Illene, 1948- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [New York, NY] : New Village Press, 2016.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Gardening > Psychological aspects.
Gardening for teenagers.
Community gardens.
Adolescent psychology.
GARDENING > General.
Jardins communautaires > États-Unis.
Adolescents > Psychologie.
Jardinage > Aspect psychologique.
Jardinage pour adolescents > États-Unis.
Psychology, Adolescent
Community gardens > United States.
Gardening for teenagers > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
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. ÂCultiva! 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

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