Growing a life : teen gardeners harvest food, health, and joy / Illène Pevec.

Includes bibliographical references.

Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award - Nominee, 2018

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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Gratitude; Preface: Do Our Brains Change While We Garden?; Introduction: Why Teens? Why Gardens?; 1. The Green Bronx Machine; 2. Planting Trees, Tomatoes, and Transformation; 3. The Sustainable Technology Effect; 4. The Challenges These Gardeners Face; 5. Choosing Higher Education; 6. Sowing Seeds for Success; 7. Gardens Grow Healthy Youth; 8. ¡Cultiva! A Market and Youth Leadership Garden; 9. Colorado Rocky Mountain School: Work Crew Gardeners; 10. Roaring Fork High School Grows Food for Lunch and Sustainability Education

11. Teen Mothers Garden at Yampah Mountain High School12. Adolescent Health and the Food Environment: What Difference Can a Garden Make?; 13. Oakland: Gangs or Gardens?; 14. Changing the Urban Food Desert; 15. Harvesting Responsibility; 16. Youth Reach Out to the Community; 17. A Mentor Goes the Extra Mile; 18. Love Cultivating Schoolyards; 19. Building a Garden Builds Us; 20. Game Theory, Optimizing a Food Business; 21. Taos: Ancient Traditions, Young Farmers; 22. Sembrando Semillas: Community Irrigation, Ancient to Modern; 23. Feed the Hood

24. Physiological and Neurological Research: Clues to Why Gardening Benefits the Gardener25. Cultivating Health, Happiness, and Peace; References

Candid interviews with teens from disadvantaged neighborhoods, plus supporting studies, show how gardening programs grow healthier minds bodies and communities. Part engaging conversation, part comprehensive fieldwork, Growing a Life demonstrates just how influential educational and community gardening programs can be for young teens. Follow author Ill?ne Pevec as she travels from rural Colorado to inner city New York, agrarian New Mexico to Oakland, California, in order to study youth gardening and the benefits it contributes to at-risk teen lives. Extensive research, supplemented by beautifully candid interviews with students, illustrate the life altering physical and mental benefits that mentored gardening programs can provide. Giving readers the opportunity to examine the largely unexplored topic of urban gardening, the programs discussed present models for future educational and community based gardens. Each destination brings with it an abundance of programs geared toward educating teens by giving them the tools they will need in order to have fruitful futures. With an emphasis on positive psychology, Growing a Life delves into the minds of underprivileged teens and what gardening means to them.

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