Publication Cover
Local Environment
The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability
Volume 16, 2011 - Issue 6: COMMUNITY GARDENS
17,464
Views
209
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Developing “community” in community gardens

, &
Pages 555-568 | Published online: 27 Jul 2011

References

  • AMC Gardens . 2009 . “ AMC Gardens home page ” . Available from: http://www.amcgardens.co.uk [Accessed 16 April 2011]
  • Armstrong , D. 2000 . A survey of community gardens in upstate New York: implications for health promotion and community development . Health and Place , 6 ( 4 ) : 319 – 327 .
  • Blakely , T. and Ivory , V. 2006 . Commentary: bonding, bridging and linking – but still not much going on . International Journal of Epidemiology , 35 ( 3 ) : 614 – 615 .
  • Cone , C. A. and Myhre , A. 2000 . Community-supported agriculture: a sustainable alternative to industrial agriculture? . Human Organisation , 59 ( 2 ) : 187 – 197 .
  • Cox , R. 2008 . Common ground? Motivations for participation in a community supported agriculture scheme . Local Environment , 3 ( 3 ) : 203 – 218 .
  • Curry , N. 2010 . Differentiating trust in rural decision making drawing on an English case study . Sociologia Ruralis , 50 ( 2 ) : 121 – 138 .
  • DeLind , L. 2003 . “ Considerably more than vegetables, a lot less community: the dilemmas of community supported agriculture ” . In Fighting for the farm: rural America transformed , Edited by: Adams , J. 192 – 206 . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press .
  • Dig In Community Allotment . 2011 . “ Dig In Community Allotment Stapleford home page ” . Available from: http://www.diginstapleford.webspace.virginmedia.com/about.html [Accessed 16 April 2011]
  • Edwards , B. and Foley , M. 1997 . Escape from politics? Social theory and the social capital debate . American Behavioral Scientist , 40 ( 5 ) : 550 – 561 .
  • FCFCG . 2010 . About city farms and community gardens [online]. Available from: http://www.farmgarden.org.uk/farms-gardens [Accessed 10 September 2009]
  • Feagan , R. 2007 . The place of food: mapping out the “local” in local food systems . Progress in Human Geography , 31 ( 1 ) : 23 – 42 .
  • Field , J. 2003 . Social capital , Abingdon, UK : Routledge .
  • Glover , T. D. 2004 . Social capital in the lived experiences of community gardeners . Leisure Sciences , 26 : 143 – 162 .
  • Hancock , T. 2000 . People, partnerships and human progress: building community capital . Health Promotion International , 16 ( 3 ) : 275 – 280 .
  • Harris , E. 2009 . Neoliberal subjectivities or a politics of the possible? Reading for difference in alternative food networks . Area , 41 ( 1 ) : 55 – 63 .
  • Irvine , S. , Johnson , L. and Peters , K. 1999 . Community gardens and sustainable land use planning: a case study of Alex Wilson community garden . Local Environment , 4 ( 1 ) : 33 – 36 .
  • Kingsley , J. Y. and Townsend , M. 2006 . ‘Dig In’ to social capital: community gardens as mechanisms for growing urban social connectedness . Urban Policy and Research , 24 ( 4 ) : 525 – 537 .
  • Linn , K. 2007 . Building commons and community , Oakland, USA : New Village Press .
  • Little , R. , Maye , D. and Ilbery , B. 2010 . Collective purchase: loving local and organic foods beyond the niche market . Environment and Planning A , 42 ( 8 ) : 1797 – 1813 .
  • Lave , J. and Wenger , E. 1991 . Situated learning: legitimate peripheral participation , Cambridge : University of Cambridge Press .
  • Maye , D. , Holloway , L. and Kneafsey , M. 2007 . Alternative food geographies: representation and practice , Edited by: Maye , D. , Holloway , L. and Kneafsey , M. Oxford : Elsevier .
  • McGlone , P. 1999 . Food projects and how they work , York, , UK : Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York Publishing Services .
  • Mooney , P. H. and Hunt , S. A. 2009 . Food security: the elaboration of contested claims to a consensus frame . Rural Sociology , 74 : 469 – 497 .
  • Moseley , M. 2003 . Rural development: principles and practices , London : Sage .
  • NCVO . 2003 . It's who you know that counts. The role of the voluntary sector in the development of social capital in rural areas , London : NCVO Publications .
  • Nottingham City Council . 2009 . Draft food growing framework [online]. Nottingham City Council. Available from: www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=3623 [Accessed 10 October 2009]
  • Portes , A. 1998 . Social capital: its origins and applications in modern sociology . Annual Review of Sociology , 22 : 1 – 24 .
  • Pudup , M. 2008 . It takes a garden: cultivating citizen-subjects in organized garden projects . Geoform , 39 : 1228 – 1240 .
  • Putnam , R. 2000 . Bowling alone: the collapse and revival of American community , New York : Simon Shuster .
  • Quayle , H. 2008 . The true value of community farms and gardens: social, environmental, health and economic [online]. The Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens. Available from: http://www.farmgarden.org.uk/publications [Accessed 1 December 2009]
  • Roberts , M. and Roche , M. 2001 . “ Quantifying social capital: measuring the intangible in the local policy context ” . In Radical Statistics [online], 76 (Winter). Available from: http://radstats.org.uk/no076/robertsandroche.htm [Accessed 8 November 2009]
  • Schmelzkopf , K. 2002 . Incommensurability, land use and the right to space: community gardens in New York city . Urban Geography , 23 ( 4 ) : 323 – 343 .
  • Shortall , S. 2008 . Are rural development programmes socially inclusive? Social inclusion, civic engagement, participation and social capital: exploring the differences . Journal of Rural Studies , 24 ( 4 ) : 450 – 457 .
  • Smith , M. K. 2003 . “ Communities of practice ” . In The encyclopedia of informal education [online]. Available from: www.infed.org/biblio/communities_of_practice.htm [Accessed 16 April 2011]
  • Twiss , J. 2003 . Community gardens: lessons learned from California healthy cities and communities . American Journal of Public Health , 93 ( 9 ) : 1435 – 1438 .
  • Wakefield , S. 2007 . Growing urban health: community gardening in South-East Toronto . Health Promotion International , 22 ( 2 ) : 92 – 100 .
  • Wilson , B. 2001 . “ Growing communities though gardening ” . In People, land and sustainability – a global view of community gardens Edited by: Ferris , J. Nottingham: PLS, 9–10
  • Woolcock , M. 2001 . The place of social capital in understanding social and economic outcomes . Isuma: Canadian Journal of Policy Research , 2 ( 1 ) : 11 – 17 .
  • Yin , R. 2003 . Case study research , 3 , London : Sage .

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.