Growing a Life : Teen Gardeners Harvest Food, Health, and Joy.
Pevec, Illéne.
Growing a Life : Teen Gardeners Harvest Food, Health, and Joy. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (408 pages)
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.
9781613320471
Gardening for teenagers-United States.
Gardening-Psychological aspects.
Adolescent psychology.
Community gardens-United States.
Electronic books.
SB457.4.T44 .P48 2016
Growing a Life : Teen Gardeners Harvest Food, Health, and Joy. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (408 pages)
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.
9781613320471
Gardening for teenagers-United States.
Gardening-Psychological aspects.
Adolescent psychology.
Community gardens-United States.
Electronic books.
SB457.4.T44 .P48 2016