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Cultivating healthy trajectories: An experimental study of community gardening and health

Dietlinde Heilmayr, Howard S Friedman

Journal of Health Psychology

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Framing community gardening as a promising but under-evidenced multifaceted health intervention, this paper presents one of the first experimental studies on the topic. The results showed promise for aspects of community gardening while underscoring the need for more rigorous methodologies, and the article offers a framework for studying the health effects of community gardening and similar multifaceted health-promotion efforts.