An Economic History of the English Garden

Mostly, people stopped growing food themselves less than a hundred years ago. Vegetable gardens were replaced with lawns, which gradually became symbols of status. It was a way of saying to neighbours, "Hey, look at how wealthy we are! We don’t even have to use our land to grow our own food!"

Between 2010 and 2016, the proportion of people in Britain who visited a natural space increased from 54 per cent to 58 per cent.

The results from the study showed that the control parks saw a small decline in the number of observed and self-reported users on the order of 6 to 10 percent, as well as declines in physical activity. In contrast, parks in the treatment group that received the additional $4,000 saw a 7-to-12-percent increase in observed and self-reported park usag

But on Saturday, May 1, 1934, the weather turned balmy, and, as they do on the first warm Saturday of every spring, New Yorkers poured into their parks. Seventeen hundred of the eighteen hundred renovation projects had been completed. Every structure in every park in the city had been repainted. Every tennis court had been resurfaced. Every lawn ha