Pandemic gardening: A narrative review, vignettes and implications for future research

Jonathan Kingsley; Kelly Donati; Jill Litt; Naomi Shimpo; Chris Blythe; Jan Vávra; Silvio Caputo; Paul Milbourne; Lucy O. Diekmann; Nick Rose; Runrid Fox-Kämper; Agnes van den Berg; Geneviève S. Metson; Alessandro Ossola; Xiaoqi Feng; Thomas Astell-Burt; Amy Baker; Brenda B. Lin; Monika Egerer; Pauline Marsh; Philip Pettitt; Theresa L. Scott; Katherine Alaimo; Kate Neale; Troy Glover; Jason Byrne

doi:10.1016/j.ufug.2023.128062

Pandemic gardening: A narrative review, vignettes and implications for future research

Jonathan Kingsley^*, Kelly Donati, Jill Litt, Naomi Shimpo, Chris Blythe, Jan Vávra, Silvio Caputo, Paul Milbourne, Lucy O. Diekmann, Nick Rose, Runrid Fox-Kämper, Agnes van den Berg, Geneviève S. Metson, Alessandro Ossola, Xiaoqi Feng, Thomas Astell-Burt, Amy Baker, Brenda B. Lin, Monika Egerer, Pauline MarshPhilip Pettitt, Theresa L. Scott, Katherine Alaimo, Kate Neale, Troy Glover, Jason Byrne

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Abstract

There is a significant amount of evidence highlighting the health, wellbeing and social benefits of gardening during previous periods of crises. These benefits were also evident during the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper presents a narrative review exploring gardening during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic to understand the different forms of gardening that took place during this crisis and key elements of this activity. Research about gardening during the pandemic focused on food (in)security and disrupted food systems, the health and wellbeing benefits of gardening, and the social dimensions of gardening. We offer three vignettes of our own research to highlight key insights from local, national and international perspectives of gardening during the pandemic. The paper's conclusion outlines how researchers, policy makers and public health practitioners can harness what has been learned from gardening during the pandemic to ensure these benefits are more widely available and do not exacerbate already entrenched health inequalities in society.

Original language	English
Article number	128062
Journal	Urban Forestry and Urban Greening
Volume	87
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2023.128062
Publication status	Published - Sept 2023

Keywords

COVID-19
Food security
Garden
Public health
Urban agriculture

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Kingsley, J., Donati, K., Litt, J., Shimpo, N., Blythe, C., Vávra, J., Caputo, S., Milbourne, P., Diekmann, L. O., Rose, N., Fox-Kämper, R., van den Berg, A., Metson, G. S., Ossola, A., Feng, X., Astell-Burt, T., Baker, A., Lin, B. B., Egerer, M., ... Byrne, J. (2023). Pandemic gardening: A narrative review, vignettes and implications for future research. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 87, Article 128062. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2023.128062

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