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Home Gardening

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Cultivate; Grow; Plant; Propagate

Introduction

Home food gardening is a potential food provisioning strategy that involves utilizing the physical, social, and economic resources of a household to produce food, particularly vegetables, fruits, berries, and herbs. While the division between farming and home food gardening can be blurred, in contrast to farming, home food gardens are in close proximity to the place of residence and involve smaller plots of land as well as a wider diversity of crops (FAO 2004).

Practically speaking, home food gardening has been practiced as a food provisioning strategy for thousands of years (FAO 2004). In the case of the United States (and its earlier status as a British colony), the practice and prevalence of home food gardening has evolved over time. During the early settlement of the United States, cultivating food was a widely adopted practice necessary for survival. However, innovation and then the gradual industrialization of farming and...

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  1. School of Environment and Natural Resources, The Ohio State University, 320B Kottman Hall, 2021 Coffey Road, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA

    Prof. Jeff S. Sharp

  2. Department of Sociology, Boise State University, 1910 University Drive Boise, 83725-1945, Idaho, USA

    Rebecca Som Castellano

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  1. Michigan State University Dept. Philosophy, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

    Paul B. Thompson

  2. University of North Texas Dept. Philosophy & Religion Studies, Denton, Texas, USA

    David M. Kaplan

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Sharp, J.S., Castellano, R.S. (2013). Home Gardening. In: Thompson, P., Kaplan, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6167-4_151-1

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