Community Gardening

Gray, Tracey, and Pigott report findings consistent with those of previous researchers: “Community gardening is a successful social and nature prescription intervention. Community gardening improves health, wellbeing and community connectedness. Community gardening reduces vulnerability by increasing social cohesion and safety. Social housing design needs to include restorative and regenerative green spaces. Policies for social housing should include community gardening projects. . . . Statistically significant improvements were found in participants’ satisfaction with personal wellbeing, health, and community connectedness; as well…