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Gardens require huge labour, and outcomes like health, well-being or food security are affected by systemic barriers people face in cities and schools.
Plant parents will be pleased to know just how beneficial houseplants can be for your health.
Publicly accessible gardens are an essential part of our food system. It’s important for policymakers to understand that growing food in city gardens is central to health, food security and culture.
Researchers have long argued that greywater could bolster South Africa’s food security if it’s used to water domestic food gardens.
Really, how productive is the average home vegetable garden – and will it leave you hungry? It largely depends on space, soil and gardening skills.
Plus, why you should always remove grass cuttings from your lawn.
The UK wants gardeners to stop thinking of slugs and snails as pests and to embrace garden biodiversity. Is it worth considering in Australia?
Pollen brings seasonal misery to millions of Americans, but it serves a critical purpose: fertilizing many kinds of plants, including food crops.
As lockdowns went into effect in the spring of 2020, many people took up gardening as a coping mechanism. But will a hobby born out of a crisis recede as life returns to normal?
Variegated plants can be more expensive than their all-green counterparts. But there are ways to protect your investment.
Up to 85% of the nectar available to pollinating insects in a city comes from gardens. What we plant – whether in an allotment or a window box – can make a huge difference.
These fascinating spiders only live for about a year and have particularly interesting family arrangements.
Taking lessons from the past could help enrich our diets for little cost
Plants support human health not only in terms of providing food, oxygen and shade. Our relationships with plants facilitate political decisions and actions that support health in the city.
The pandemic has taken a toll on people’s mental and physical health – but spending time in your garden can counteract this.
When community gardens are socially inclusive, everyone benefits. The knowledge, skills and experimentation of migrant and refugee gardeners makes them more resilient and biodiverse.
Gardening provides a helpful metaphor to help us understand how individual and platform approaches to misinformation need to be accompanied by policy and cultural reforms.
What can gardeners use that isn’t so bad for the climate?
Planting a garden for winter-active insects is a wonderful way to support local biodiversity. Your garden will thrive with the free pollination and pest control services the insects provide.
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Senior Research Associate, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Entomology, University of Sydney
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Vice Chancellor's Research Fellow in Ecology and Entomology, Edith Cowan University
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Mycology, West Virginia University
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Founder of Msit No’kmaq
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Associate Professor of Botany, University of Reading
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Assistant Professor, Eakin Chair in Critical Qualitative Health Research Methodology, University of Toronto
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Lecturer in Ecology, University of New England
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Associate Professor, Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Dalhousie University
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Associate Professor in Ecology, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Wellbeing Postdoctoral Fellow with the Royal Horticultural Society, University of Sheffield
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Visiting Research Fellow in Environmental Psychology, University of Surrey
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PhD Candidate, Social Justice Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor of Mycology and Plant Pathology, West Virginia University