The study investigates the different attitudes people have to home food gardening in Canada during the pandemic.According to the report, a survey was conducted from Sept.
28-30 in partnership with Angus Reid to collect data from people across the country for the study. The survey was conducted online, and 1,023 valid responses were collected.The report suggests that 51 per cent of people who responded to the survey grow at least one variety of fruit or vegetable in a garden.
Of those, 17.4 per cent started growing food at home in 2020 during COVID-19 — that is almost one in five Canadians.The report also states that a total of 67 per cent of new gardeners in 2020 agree that the pandemic influenced their decision to start growing food at.