Journal Club 5: Previous Gardening Experience & Gardening Enjoyment is Related to Vegetable Preferences and Consumption Among Low-Income Children

(Recorded 3/5/2018)

Speaker: Alexandra van den Berg, PhD, MPH, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Texas!Grow!Eat!Go! (TGEG) was a 5-year garden-based intervention study implemented in 28 Title 1 elementary schools in Texas. As part of the baseline data collection, we collected information on gardening experience, gardening enjoyment, exposure to vegetables, vegetable preference and vegetable consumption from 1326 ethnically-diverse children. In this presentation we will discuss relationships between these variables as tested by random-effects regression models. We will also describe implications of this study on school-garden based interventions.