Abstract Urban agriculture, which includes community gardens, provides ecosystem services but is continuously threatened by the densification of cities. Picardo Farm is the oldest community garden in Seattle. Its success and popularity inspired the municipality of Seattle to develop a city-wide public program called the P-Patch Community Gardening program. We evaluated the perceptions of Picardo Farm gardeners about the benefits provided by the farm and the reasons why this community garden is so resilient. Gardeners were asked three open-ended questions and their responses were evaluated for recurring keywords regarding ecosystem services. We found that gardeners’ perceptions of ecosystem services vary, and they often underestimate ecosystem services related to regulation. We identified seven key topics from gardeners’ responses: a sense of community, placemaking, food, health, place attachment, nature, and education. Furthermore, our results indicate that, in order to achieve resilience, community gardens require public institutions to build and empower cohesive communities of gardeners and gardens need to be placed in urban areas suitable for agricultural use.

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向西雅图最古老社区花园的园丁学习：通过生态系统服务分析解释恢复力

摘要 包括社区花园在内的都市农业提供生态系统服务，但不断受到城市密集化的威胁。皮卡多农场是西雅图最古老的社区花园。它的成功和受欢迎程度激发了西雅图市政府制定一项名为 P-Patch 社区园艺计划的全市公共计划。我们评估了皮卡多农场园丁对农场提供的好处的看法以及这个社区花园如此有弹性的原因。园丁们被问到三个开放式问题，他们的回答被评估为关于生态系统服务的重复关键词。我们发现园丁对生态系统服务的看法各不相同，他们经常低估与监管相关的生态系统服务。我们从园丁的回答中确定了七个关键主题：社区意识、场所营造、食物、健康、场所依恋、自然和教育。此外，我们的结果表明，为了实现复原力，社区花园需要公共机构来建立和增强有凝聚力的园丁社区，花园需要放置在适合农业用途的城市地区。