Database research record2025·United Kingdom
From crisis to opportunity: exploring urban food growing in the UK during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chris Blythe, Silvio Caputo, Michael Hardman, Paul Milbourne, Victoria Schoen
Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent)
Urban Farm DB summary
This chapter examines the impact of urban food growing on individual, household, and community resilience, well-being, environment, and local food systems in the UK during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, drawing on survey and research data. It discusses the potential role of urban food growing in post-pandemic food security, environment, health, and society, and considers how "crisis gardening" experiences are leading to calls for new approaches to urban food growing in the UK.