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What Is a School Farm? Results of a Scoping Review Blair, Sammy A.; Edwards, Gabrielle; Yu, Katharine; Jovel, Eduardo; Powell, Lisa Jordan; Renwick, Kerry; Conklin, Annalijn I.

Abstract

As school farms become more prominent programs to teach food education, research is needed to support school farms’ implementation and sustainability. This scoping review included 94 articles on school farms from three bibliometric databases covering broad international literature. Vocational agricultural training, animal husbandry, and crop production were common characteristics of school farms across 103 years of publications. Themes of sustainability, healthy eating, and food systems were more prominent in recent literature. Peer-reviewed studies (1985–2019) provided some empirical research showing school farms’ impact on students. This review discusses school farms’ structures and objectives as promising food education and production programming.

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Title
What Is a School Farm? Results of a Scoping Review
Creator
Blair, Sammy A.; Edwards, Gabrielle; Yu, Katharine; Jovel, Eduardo; Powell, Lisa Jordan; Renwick, Kerry; Conklin, Annalijn I.
Publisher
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Date Issued
2023-03-30
Description
As school farms become more prominent programs to teach food education, research is needed to support school farms’ implementation and sustainability. This scoping review included 94 articles on school farms from three bibliometric databases covering broad international literature. Vocational agricultural training, animal husbandry, and crop production were common characteristics of school farms across 103 years of publications. Themes of sustainability, healthy eating, and food systems were more prominent in recent literature. Peer-reviewed studies (1985–2019) provided some empirical research showing school farms’ impact on students. This review discusses school farms’ structures and objectives as promising food education and production programming.
Subject
school farm; food education; food access; school food; agricultural education; food literacy; food security; food systems; vocational agriculture
Genre
Article
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2025-07-30
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
CC BY 4.0
DOI
10.14288/1.0449538
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/91735
Affiliation
Education, Faculty of; Land and Food Systems, Faculty of; Non UBC
Citation
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20 (7): 5332 (2023)
Publisher DOI
10.3390/ijerph20075332
Peer Review Status
Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty; Graduate
Rights URI
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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