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...The garden ecology project gep enhancing urban food production ecosystem services environmental education in nyc community gardens megan m gregory department of horticulture cornell university january background city dwellers civil society organizations and policymakers show growing interest gardening for its potential to improve nutrition public health enhance quality provide opportunities residents experience natural world may play important roles fostering access healthy eating physical mental stewardship organizing supporting expanding could benefit many neighborhoods where people lack affordable foods interactions with nature however gardeners face a number challenges knowledge gaps social institutional are well characterized include insecure land tenure recruiting sustaining volunteers securing appropriate materials technical support successfully agricultural ecological processes have only recently received attention research as result there has been little on practices that addr...