ArticlePublic health nutrition2020
Home gardening and associations with fruit and vegetable intake and BMI.
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- Harvest for Health, a Randomized Controlled Trial Testing a Home-Based, Vegetable Gardening Intervention Among Older Cancer Survivors Across Alabama: An Analysis of Accrual and Modifications Made in Intervention Delivery and Assessment During COVID-19.Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics · 2022Trial
- Enhancing sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L.) production in Europe: a case study of home gardening in Hungary.Biologia futura · 2026Review
- Practical Application of Ethical Research Principles: Developing and Implementing Grassroots Food Security Research With the Yarrabah Aboriginal Community.Health promotion journal of Australia : official journal of Australian Association of Health Promotion Professionals · 2026Article
- Home gardening and fruit and vegetable intake in rural settlements in Northeast Hungary.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Growing Healthy Hearts: a pilot randomized controlled trial of a digitally delivered gardening, cooking, and Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet intervention for adults with cardiovascular risk factors.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2026Article
- The effect of home gardening on vegetable and fruit consumption: a pre-post intervention study in Northeast Hungary.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2026Article
- Barriers and facilitators for consuming a plant-based diet in patients with knee osteoarthritis: a qualitative study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Does Home and Wild Food Procurement Enhance Food Security in High-Income Countries?Current environmental health reports · 2025Review
- Perception of diet, dietary practices and sources of dietary information among people with type 2 diabetes followed up at a tertiary care outpatient clinic: a qualitative study.BMC nutrition · 2024Article
- The Impact of Gardening on Dietary Inflammation: Mixed-Effect Models and Propensity Score Analyses.AJPM focus · 2024Article
- Interactions with Nature, Good for the Mind and Body: A Narrative Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Review
- Harvest for health in survivors of chronic disease: A demonstration project in the Alabama Black Belt and Mississippi Delta Region.Translational behavioral medicine · 2024Article
- Relationship between home garden ownership and the consumption of fruits and vegetables.Public health nutrition · 2024Article
- Food insecurity, COVID-19 and diets in Fiji - a cross-sectional survey of over 500 adults.Globalization and health · 2023Article
- Growing Healthy Hearts: a single-arm feasibility study of a digitally delivered gardening, cooking, and nutrition intervention for adults with risk factors for cardiovascular disease.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2023Article
- Participant Preferences for the Development of a Digitally Delivered Gardening Intervention to Improve Diet, Physical Activity, and Cardiovascular Health: Cross-sectional Study.JMIR formative research · 2023Article
- Encouraging planting in urban front gardens: a focus group study.Perspectives in public health · 2023Article
- Double burden of malnutrition and its associated factors among adolescents in Debre Berhan Regiopolitan City, Ethiopia: a multinomial regression model analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo understand who engages in home gardening and whether gardening is associated with fruit and vegetable intake and weight status.
designA national cross-sectional survey.
settingOnline survey panel in the USA.
participantsAdults aged 18-75 years representing the US population with respect to gender, age, race/ethnicity, income and geographic region (n 3889).
resultsApproximately 30 % of survey respondents reported growing edible plants in a home garden. Gardeners were more likely to be White or Asian, employed, have higher income, be married, have children in the household and live in rural areas. Gardeners were less likely to be obese and more likely to meet US dietary recommendations for fruit and vegetable consumption. In multivariable analyses, home gardens remained associated with fruit and vegetable intake and BMI when controlling for a range of socio-demographic characteristics and level of rurality.
conclusionsThe current study identifies who is gardening in the USA and provides useful information for public health efforts to increase gardening as a nutrition intervention. Future research should examine the benefits of home gardening and interventions to increase home gardening using more rigorous designs.
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