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

    • Title:Growing a life : teen gardeners harvest food, health, and joy / Illène Pevec.
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    • Author/Creator:Pevec, Illène, 1948- author.
    • Published/Created:[New York, New York] : New Village Press, 2016.
      ©2016
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Gardening for teenagers--United States.
      Gardening--Psychological aspects.
      Adolescent psychology.
      Community gardens--United States.
    • Medical Subjects: Gardening.
      Adolescent Health.
      Urban Health.
    • Edition:First edition.
    • Description:407 pages ; 24 cm
    • Summary:Growing a Life demonstrates just how influential school and community gardening programs can be for adolescents. Readers follow author Illène Pevec as she travels from rural Colorado to inner New York City, and from agrarian New Mexico to urban Oakland, California, to study remarkable youth gardening programs for at-risk teens. Expressive candid interviews with more than eighty students, substantiated by relevant neuroscience research and a framework of positive psychology, explain the life-altering physical and emotional benefits of gardening. As students share their experiences tending the soil and the plants, feeding their families and their communities, and guiding younger children, readers are given the opportunity to examine the largely unexplored topic of mentored urban gardening. Growing a Life will inspire educators, community leaders, and youth to team up and establish community gardens where they do not already exist and to involve youth in existing gardens.--AMAZON.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
    • ISBN:9781613320174 paperback alkaline paper
      1613320175 paperback alkaline paper
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Green Bronx Machine
      2. Planting Trees, Tomatoes, and Transformation
      3. Sustainable Technology Effect
      4. 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. 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.
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