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Benefits of Gardening for Children
(2009)
Abstract
Gardening provides different forms of engagement for children, including designing, planting, and maintaining gardens; harvesting, preparing, and sharing food; working cooperatively in groups; learning about science and nutrition; and creating art and stories inspired by gardens. The studies summarized below have been selected because they include control groups, pre- and post-measures, well controlled correlations, or in-depth qualitative analyses. For more studies and an analysis of this research, see Blair (2009), “The child in the garden: An evaluative review of the benefits of school gardening.” Available online at http://www.colorado.edu/cye/sites/default/files/attached-files/Gardening_factsheet_2011.pdf
Keywords
- gardening,
- children,
- youth,
- fact sheet,
- social,
- cognitive,
- physical,
- mental,
- benefits
Disciplines
Publication Date
2009
Citation Information
Bambi L Yost and Louise Chawla. "Benefits of Gardening for Children" (2009) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/bambi_yost/3/