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Is horticulture more popular than jogging? The results of a Don Bowdren Associates survey indicate that 52% of the population is engaged in some form of horticulture, compared to only 27% that jog. These people have discovered what we have long known —that horticulture is everywhere. Horticulture is a science, an art, a profession, a business, an industry, a vocation, an avocation, a way of life involving millions of people! As that way of life changes—and people's needs change—horticulture adapts.
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Urban Horticulture is a new area of scientific horticulture concerned with functional uses of plants to maintain and improve urban environments. “Functional uses” means that plants are used not only for beauty and ornamentation, but also as screens against wind, headlights, and unpleasant views, to influence climate, perhaps to reduce noise and combat forms of air pollution, for essential food and variation in human diet, and to improve the human psyche in densely populated areas. The constituent audiences for urban horticulture are people who utilize plants, primarily in landscape situations, including landscape maintenance and parks personnel, landscape architects, arborists, highway planters, nursery contractors, members of plant societies, and amateur horticulturists.
1 Assistant Professor, Depts. of Horticulture and Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology. Salaries and research support provided by state and federal funds appropriated to the Ohio Agricultural Research and
Poster Session 29—Teaching Horticulture to Diverse Constituencies 20 July 2005, 12:00–12:45 p.m. Poster Hall–Ballroom E/F
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). Agricultural development is also crucial in allowing Myanmar to reach food security in ways that will improve lives while expanding economic growth. Horticulture will be an important component for achieving food security and improving human nutrition. Although
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There is much ferment among horticulturists as to the posture of horticultural research and teaching. Some question the very existence of horticulture as a science and the need for graduate degrees in a commodity-oriented field.
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The cornucopia, or ‘horn of plenty’, symbolizes abundance and is a symbol suitable for expressing the horticultural abundance of California.
Poster Session 29—Teaching Horticulture to Diverse Constituencies 20 July 2005, 12:00–12:45 p.m. Poster Hall–Ballroom E/F
( Jensen et al., 2002a , 2002b ). In addition, computer activity reduces parasympathetic activity, which can lead to tension and stress ( Garde et al., 2002 ; Hjortskov et al., 2004 ). In contrast, horticultural activities are effective in restoring and