Horticulture More than a Hobby
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Horticulture More than a Hobby. Greening our urban environment. Gardening is often listed as Americas favorite hobby but its much more than ...
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Horticulture More than a HobbyPage 1IIIIImmmmmpacpacpacpacpactttttRESEARCHEXT ENSION ANDEDUCATIONATWORKSCIENCEBenefits from USDA/LandGrant Partnership&EDUCATIONHorticulture More than a HobbyGreening our urban environment.Gardening is often listed as Americas favorite hobby but its much more thanthat. Lawns gardens and green spaces increase property value clean our aircool cities feed families and tie us back to agriculture. When the growinggets tough the USDA/landgrant partnership is there to help the tough getgrowing.PayoffSearch for more at http://www.csrees.usda.gov/impactGrowing fiveaday. Only 20 percent of the U.S. population eats the recommendedfive servings daily of fruits and vegetables. Community gardening improves dietaryquality and helps participants use their own resources to meet part of their foodneeds. The California Extensions Berkley and Los Angeles community gardensprovide fresh healthful produce to lowincome residents who otherwise might bechallenged by cost and transportation to add fresh fruits and vegetables to theirdiets. The gardeners receive payment from the Women Infants and Childrenprogram (WIC) for their produce. Since summer 1994 Illinois urban gardenersprograms have provided fresh vegetables to about 30500 mothers in WIC. IdahoExtension helped the USDA/Nez Perce Food and Nutrition Services produce ediblesoybeans to improve the nutrition of the 280 families this programs garden feeds.Vermonts gardenenhanced nutrition education programs helped 26 lowincomecommunities grow vegetables for 572 youth.Western water woes. Demand for urban water is becoming a critical issue in thearid West. It is estimated that 35 percent to 60 percent of the water used in westernU.S. metropolitan areas such as Las Vegas and Salt Lake City is applied to residential and commercial landscaped areas. These cities are among the fastest growingand the driest in the country. Nevada Extensions landscape wateruse evaluationsin Las Vegas yielded an overall water savin ...
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