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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pevec, Illene, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gardening for teenagers--United States.

Gardening for teenagers.

Gardening--Psychological aspects.

Gardening.

Adolescent psychology.

Community gardens--United States.

Community gardens.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (407 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : New Village Press, 2016.

Summary:

A testament to the influential nature of educational and community gardening programs for teens 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 Illéne 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.

Contents:

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 School

12. 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 Gardener

25. Cultivating Health, Happiness, and Peace

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61332-047-7