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The Social Ecological Impact of a Backyard Gardening program in a Rural Food Desert
Elizabeth Kizer, DrPH, MSJuly 25, 2017
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Social Ecological Model
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Brief bio
Individual: Education
Social Env: Rural Parent
Physical Env: Local county gov’t Food deserts
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Learning Objectives
1. Discuss uses of a social ecological models using a case study.
2. Illustrate a unique approach to increasing fresh food in food desert communities to improve community health.
3. Discuss the positive mental health / therapeutic benefits of gardening.
Kizer harvest October 2015
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Seed the Future
Future Forward Foundation (3F) 501(c)(3) located in Florence, AZ
Kizer gardenFall 2016
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Research Methods
1. Ethnography2. Participant observation3. Key informant interviews4. Semi-structured
interviews with participants
5. Directed content analysis of transcriptions using Nvivo
Kizer carrot harvest, Florence, AZ: 3/11/17
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Focused ethnography
Local newspaper Scheduled and
spontaneous face-to-face encounters
Social networks/groups Email Community events (i.e.
3F/UA class) 3F website Participant observation Semi-structured
interviews
Coolidge, AZ garden
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3F Gardeners
April 2013 = founding gardens tour in Florence
April 2014 = participant observer
Spring 2015 = 32 gardeners (9 cities)
Summer 2015 = 74% participated in semi-structured interviews (n=23)
Kearny, AZ garden
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Participant Observation - April 2014
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About the gardeners
Kizer garden 2014
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Directed content analysis interviews
Interviews lasted 30-60 min, transcriptions prepared (n=22)
NVivo utilized for content analyses
Coding based upon SEM
Winkleman, AZ garden
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Impacts – Individual & Social env.
Positive impacts for ed. personal health and diet
Positive impact for social networks (sharing & teaching friends/family)
Positive impact for physical environments (food banks, landfills, senior centers, tribal lands, veterans home)
Florence, AZ garden
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Individual Health
“I’m diabetic so vegetables have to be at least 50% of my diet and it’s just so nice to have them right there [in the backyard] and have it be pretty much year round. There’s a little gap between the summer, end of the summer garden and the production of the winter garden, but last year I started freezing some of my winter vegetables and that worked out well. My A1C, which is your blood sugar levels, has gone down quite a bit by just having the diet with all the vegetables… The last time I had it checked it was 7.4 and I’ve never have a 7 point anything! The lowest I think I ever had was 8.2 …We’re still trying to get it down to 7 but that’s the closest I’ve ever been.”
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Mental Health
“Oh it’s very therapeutic; I mean just giving back to nature…just getting your hands in the dirt and seeing something from the beginning through to the end it’s just so satisfying…The trouble we have more than anything else is that it becomes, it is SO therapeutic I often times don’t notice that my hands are dirty or that I have stuff under my fingernails and I’ll go out and then be like, oh, my!”
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Impacts – Mental Health“They just got into it. The veterans just got into it and it became not just a garden but a therapy garden -really, a therapy garden. It was a life-changer for a couple of them. One of the residents, this young man here {pointing at a picture}, had done landscaping and just made some poor choices and ended up, he and his daughter, they were residents for a while until he could get his life back together. He would go out and work the garden and it helped transition – transform - I guess we should probably call it a transformational housing because with the garden there and the other things that they can do through the camaraderie in the…house. It can move them along...
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Continued...Some of them are so - in such poor health - that they would never be transformed into workers again but they can have self-esteem built back up and self-reliance and be able to become independent again with support…Oh they love [the garden]. [One individual who moved out of the house because of anger issues but loved the garden] said, “Can I work the garden?’ Knock yourself out! It became his passion, it did, it became his passion. We would pull up at the house there and he would be smiling and would want to take anybody who came by out to the garden, show them the produce [saying,] “Let me pull you some produce. Let me get you some produce.””
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Impacts – Mental Health
“It’s everything we can do to keep our head above water sometimes. With counseling and the trauma alone is enough to polish off most families….So this garden is more of a godsend then I think most people could possibly understand because it keeps a family together, it keeps us doing things and it keeps us moving forward, you know?.... The landscape here has completely changed compared to what it was…if you have to stay in the house where a great tragedy occurred, you have to change the look of it or you can’t survive…You won’t make it, there’s no way. Change the landscape, the purpose - change it all.”
Mammoth, AZ produce
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Social Environment
“One thing that I really did enjoy about the garden was that we could help a few people. If we didn’t get it to [3F], at least we got it to people who needed it. We got it to friends that were in trouble who needed some help, we got it to another couple families that didn’t have a lot of money and so we did that… They saved groceries and ate fresh food.”
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Social Environment
“…They just liked all the red peppers when I had them the first time, but when I have things and there’s a lot of them and it’s in abundance, I’ll just fill up my pot and go house to house. I start with the elderly, when I talk about elderly and this might not be right, but I talk about the people that are my mom’s age…. I start with the older ones because they have limited income. They might not be physically able to go out shopping. They love the stuff that I’m planting…”
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Impacts – Physical environment
“I give plants like these to the food bank. Oh man, people love them there. They disappear…This one here, I’ve taken them over 500 plants. What I call is a “plant” like this they’ll be from 3 to 4 to 5 [seedlings in a small container]. ... that was [a] new [experience of taking things to the food bank]. That’s where [3F] got me started because I think it’s a wonderful thing. Everybody should grow something, you know. Especially if you live like I did, my father did. You had to grow something, you couldn’t buy every damn thing. If you had to buy everything, you couldn’t have it.”
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Physical environment
“We use very little of the stuff, so we give most of it to the food bank. To me, I’m just amazed at the thing that we can do to help somebody else by giving it to the food bank.”
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Increasing the local production of fresh foods
2017 - 3F Hoop House
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Thank you!
Steve and kiddos Future Forward
Foundation Gardeners AZ Center for Rural
Health
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Q & A