Participation in urban community gardens improves mental health, social health, and physical health by increasing awareness of local environment and fostering altruism and connection to the global community.

Community gardens and urban agriculture: Healthy environment/healthy citizens.

Community gardens promote physical and mental health and well-being for non-institutionalized individuals, regardless of age, making them an affordable and efficient health promotion strategy.

Evidence on the contribution of community gardens to promote physical and mental health and well-being of non-institutionalized individuals: A systematic review

Community gardens in South-East Toronto provide numerous health benefits, including improved access to food, nutrition, physical activity, and mental health, while also promoting social health and community cohesion.

Growing urban health: community gardening in South-East Toronto.

Community gardens provide health benefits and social impact in low-income urban communities, but caution is needed due to potential environmental toxicants.

Community Gardens as Environmental Health Interventions: Benefits Versus Potential Risks

Community gardens in Port Melbourne, Australia, provide members with spiritual, fitness, and nutritional benefits, as well as social support and a sense of worth and involvement.

Cultivating health and wellbeing: members' perceptions of the health benefits of a Port Melbourne community garden

Urban home gardening and nutrition education programs can improve nutrition and health in marginalized populations at high cardiometabolic risk by increasing fresh produce consumption, promoting home cooking, and decreasing fast food consumption.

Nutrition and Health Improvements After Participation in an Urban Home Garden Program.

Urban gardens can improve food security, health, well-being, and financial sustainability of households by increasing fruit and vegetable consumption, reducing health costs, and enhancing self-esteem.

Can urban gardens improve food security, health, well-being and financial sustainability of households?

Urban gardening can improve public health by enhancing food security, economic development, exercise, psychological well-being, and environmental stewardship, while addressing potential health issues.

Public Health Implications of Urban Agriculture

Urban gardens promote physical activity, reduce stress, and improve social cohesion, while promoting ecosystem health and ecosystem services in urban green space management.

Indicators to support healthy urban gardening in urban management.

Community gardening in urban environments can improve subjective well-being and resilience, potentially benefiting mental health in urban environments.

Community Gardening: Stress, Well-Being, and Resilience Potentials

Urban farming on medical university campuses can improve nutrition, physical activity, and community engagement, while providing environmental benefits and connecting students, faculty, and the community to food and health.

Cultivating Integration: Urban Farming on a Medical University Campus: The MUSC Urban Farm Is Designed to Be a Living Classroom Where Students, Faculty, Staff, and the Community Come Together to Explore the Connection between Food and Health

Participation in rural community gardens provides physical, nutritional, social, and psychological benefits, but improvements are needed to attract more rural residents to participate.

Community gardening and health-related benefits for a rural Victorian town

Urban allotment gardening is associated with improved physical, psychological, and social health, with potential for preventative healthcare.

Health Benefits of Urban Allotment Gardening: Improved Physical and Psychological Well-Being and Social Integration

Urban agriculture contributes to urban sustainability through food security, health benefits, social inclusion, and regeneration, but governance and planning aspects need further attention.

Monitoring the contribution of urban agriculture to urban sustainability: an indicator-based framework

Community gardening participants have significantly lower BMIs and lower odds of being overweight or obese compared to their non-gardening neighbors.

Harvesting more than vegetables: the potential weight control benefits of community gardening.

Urban agriculture, when managed according to agroecological principles, provides local communities with economic, social, and environmental benefits, contributing to UN Sustainable Development Goals.

With sustainable use of local inputs, urban agriculture delivers community benefits beyond food

Urban agriculture contributes to community cohesion, health, and well-being, while reducing food insecurity and improving health, but more research is needed on educational and economic outcomes.

The Socio-Cultural Benefits of Urban Agriculture: A Review of the Literature

Frequent gardening leads to greater perceived health benefits, but the main motivation for residents to garden is the enjoyment it provides.

Why garden? – Attitudes and the perceived health benefits of home gardening

Community farms and gardens provide multi-dimensional transformational potential, offering therapeutic landscapes and connections to the land, farmers, and other members, regardless of location or cultural context.

The spaces and times of community farming

Urban farming activities in cities enhance environmental, economic, and social sustainability, improving food security, human safety, and health, with community participation being crucial for successful implementation.

ROLES OF COMMUNITY TOWARDS URBAN FARMING ACTIVITIES

What are the health benefits of community gardening and urban farming?

These studies suggest that community gardening and urban farming improve mental, social, and physical health, enhance nutrition and food security, and foster community cohesion and environmental stewardship.