An exploratory study of the impacts on gardening to older people : case study to Tsuen Wan golden organic farming project

Aims This was an exploratory study to investigate how gardening could enhance and strengthen the physical health, psychological well-being and social networks of older participants. Design and participants Qualitative research methodology was adopted in this study. Interviews were conducted on ten elderly people. In order to check and confirm the information collected in the in-depth interviews and provide more useful information for our study, four older participants and four volunteer workers were invited to join our two focus group discussions (N=8) upon the completion of the in-depth interview. Data was collected between March and July of 2004. Findings In this study, we found that elderly participants benefited more in their psychological well-being and the enlargement of their social networks. On the side of psychological well-being, many older participants expressed that they felt happier and it brought a greater meaning to their life. Gardening distracted them from thinking negative thoughts, and helped them set goals as well as gain achievements in life. Another significant change was their enlargement of social networks, we found that the ties between older participants and their family members were strengthened. Moreover, elderly participants made new friends during gardening with both elderly participants and voluntary workers

Chile Pepper Variety Evaluation at Four Sites across Minnesota and Wisconsin, 2020

Latinx fresh market vegetable farmers in Minnesota face numerous barriers to market access. Many Latinx farmers live in rural communities where farmers market sales are low, and opportunities for wholesale are limited. The growers who make up Shared Ground Farmers’ Cooperative have developed an innovative cooperative marketing system to aggregate produce and sell it in Twin Cities markets, but many of the individual farmers involved also wish to find ways to keep the produce they grow in their own communities. This project emerged through a series of discussions about finding niche markets for culturally relevant crops in small-town Mexican restaurants and grocery stores, and creating value-added products. The Shared Ground growers sought out a collaboration with the University of Minnesota to explore the viability of chile pepper production in Minnesota and Wisconsin. This paper reports on 24 chile pepper varieties, trialed at 4 sites across Minnesota and Wisconsin. In addition to yield, we report early-stage results from dehydration tests and Scoville heat unit testing

Retail innovation and shopping practices: consumers' reaction to self-service retailing

Authors' draft also available on Surrey eprints repository at http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk. Final version available online at http://www.envplan.com/In this paper we address the related issues of retail innovation, changing shopping practices, and shopping geographies. We do so in relation to the spread of self-service grocery stores, and particularly the supermarket, in the postwar retail environment of Britain (1950 – 70), arguing that this juncture provides a propitious opportunity to study the relationship between changing practices of retailing and consumption. We highlight shoppers’ selective adoption of new self-service formats in relation to certain product categories and argue that this can be explained in part by reference to the socially embedded nature of women food shoppers’ behaviours and in particular the influence of contemporary notions of the ‘good housewife’. We support our argument by reference to a wide range of contemporary documentary material relating to postwar shopping including market research reports, the publications of local consumer groups, and selected retailer and government archive sources

Towards sustaiinable management of urban green spaces in Zimbabwe: an explanatory study of Gweru City

Effective sustainable management of urban green spaces can cushion the shocks associated with their depletion and the accomplishment of SDG 11.7, particularly in countries in the Global South that are rapidly urbanising. Gweru was selected as the study's focus point because it parallels the dilemma of urban green space demise in Zimbabwe. The purpose of this research was to provide both practical and theoretical contributions to the sustainable management of green areas to make Gweru a more liveable City. The study's ontological and axiological perspectives are constructivist and value-laden, respectively, while its epistemological viewpoint is interpretivist. This research employed a combined methodological approach to obtain insight into the spatial dynamics, drivers, negative consequences, involvement of stakeholders, and sustainable management of green spaces in Gweru, Zimbabwe. Geospatial technology, direct observation, questionnaires (n=1990), and interviews (face-to-face interview) (n=5) were employed as data-gathering approaches to accomplish this. The Driving Force-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) framework was utilised to give both theoretical and practical answers for the sustainable management of Gweru City's green areas. The findings indicated that urban green areas are being depleted at an alarming rate. The primary causes of such decline spanned from administrative shortcomings to geological impact, while the negative consequences ranged from ecological to environmental damage. The findings also suggested that stakeholders like citizens, churches, and civic organisations, among others, should be engaged in the long-term maintenance of green areas in Gweru City. Finally, this study suggested additional research on the green planning approach, which improves the sustainable management of green areas in Gweru.Geograph

The control of pesticide A code of practice

SIGLEAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:99/11713 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply Centre3. ed.GBUnited Kingdo

Great Plains Produce Association Records, 1980-1983

The Great Plains Produce Association was founded circa 1980 in the Fargo, North Dakota-Moorhead, Minnesota area. It is a non-profit corporation dedicated to serving the local farm produce interests of North Dakota, northern South Dakota, and western Minnesota. Its stated purpose was to promote the production and use of locally grown vegetables, fruits, and flowers