kitchen gardeningn.
/ˌkɪtʃ(ᵻ)n ˈɡɑːdn̩ɪŋ/, /ˌkɪtʃ(ᵻ)n ˈɡɑːdnɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌkɪtʃ(ə)n ˈɡɑrdn̩ɪŋ/, /ˌkɪtʃ(ə)n ˈɡɑrdnɪŋ/ 1. The action or practice of cultivating and maintaining a kitchen garden (kitchen garden n. 1); (also) the growing of fruit, vegetables, herbs, etc., especially as a pastime or to supply one's own household.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > [noun] > types of gardening
curtilagec1430
kitchen gardening?1700
landscape-gardeninga1763
picturesque gardeninga1763
window gardening1801
landscape architecture1840
rock gardening1840
market gardening1852
water gardening1870
wild gardening1870
olericulture1886
market work1887
trucking1897
tub-gardening1904
landscaping1930
greenswardsmanship1936
godwottery1937
sand gardening1960
xeriscaping1987
?1700 Adam Armed 1 A well-regulated Body of Men, able to Educate a Succession of Gardeners to serve the Kingdom in respective Occasions; as some the Nobility and Gentry, some the Markets, (which we call Kitchen-Gardening), some in Flowers and choice Greens, some in Nurseries, [etc.].
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 878 It was not..till the beginning of the sixteenth century that any great progress was made in the art of kitchen-gardening in our own country.
1947 Gisborne (N.Z.) Herald 4 Sept. 4/6 There is evidence that the men and their families have made the best of things, and kitchen gardening is evidently pursued with some keenness.
2019 Express (Nexis) 13 July 44 The new-found fashion for kitchen gardening could be just what it takes to get village shows back on their feet.
2. Education (North American). The action or practice of teaching housekeeping skills to children, especially using the kitchen garden system of instruction (kitchen garden n. 2). Also: housekeeping skills as a discipline or subject of study. Now historical and rare.
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society > education > teaching > systematic or formal teaching > [noun] > teaching poor children
kitchen gardening1886
1886 Bloomington (Illinois) Daily Leader 4 Nov. The girls will be drilled in the kitchen-gardening songs, and also lessons in practical work.
1893 Daily News 26 Jan. 5/5 ‘Kitchen-gardening’ is the curious name bestowed upon their labours by the ladies of an American city, who teach a class of poor children to sew, cook, dust, sweep, make beds, and wash clothes.
1918 A. H. Leake Vocational Educ. Girls & Women i. 19 The children were gathered together by these benevolent organization and instructed, first, in the elements of needlework, then in housewifery under the name of kitchen gardening.
1997 K. A. Johnson Uplifting Women & Race (Ph.D. diss., Univ. Calif, Los Angeles) v. 203 The model kindergarten classes of the [Colored Woman's] League predated the adoption of similar classes in the District's school system... In addition, the League's Industrial Committee provided sewing classes and kitchen gardening.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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