The posttest instrument asked all intervention and comparison participants
questions their social and communitV activities in the previous four months,
and about their health habits-particularIy diet and exercise. We asked the
gardeners to rate the importance of the program to them personalIy, to assess
the food money they saved because of gardening, to provide reasons for
participating in the program, and to respond to a host of garden-specific
questions.
interviewed 50 clients from the Milwaukee county grounds garden, 53 from
this garden's comparison group, 12 to 14 clients from each other garden, and
11 to 12 participants from these gardens' comparison groups. See Table 2.2
for respondent characteristics. We found no statistically significant differences
between intervention and comparison groups in ethnic background, age
categories, and sex.