Podur, JustinBuckvold-Beirne, Elle Clare2024-11-072024-11-072024-06-242024-11-07https://hdl.handle.net/10315/42432This project explores the positive and negative interactions and conflicts that arise between the people and mammals working, visiting, and living in urban farms and community gardens. This involved an anonymous survey of people that work and grow in the research sites, and the use of trail cameras to capture the mammals that visited the sites. The study examined two urban agricultural sites from August to November 2022, in Toronto, ON: one urban farm and one community garden, both with proximity to urban wildlife habitat. Growers have a complicated, nuanced relationship with the various species living in and benefitting from these miniature agricultural landscapes. Trail cameras at both sites captured numerous species, as well as several individuals who made repeated visits. Conflicts at both sites arose from the eating and spoiling of crops, and damage to infrastructure by wildlife, but some participants felt positively about their interactions with some species.Author owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.SustainabilityAnimal behaviorUrban planningElectronic Thesis or Dissertation2024-11-07Urban agricultureUrban agroecologyUrban wildlifeMammal behaviorUrban species richnessSustainabilityUrban planningUrban food systemsSustainable food systemsUrban habitat restorationUrban conservationUrban socio-ecological relationshipsSocio-ecological relationshipsHuman-nature relationshipsHuman-wildlife relationshipsHuman-mammal interactionsHuman-wildlife interactionsHuman-wildlife conflict and coexistenceHuman-wildlife conflictHuman-wildlife coexistenceEcosystem servicesEnvironmental understandingUrban camera trapsCamera trapsUrban camera trappingStriped skunk (mephitis mephitis)Coyote (canis latrans)Eastern grey squirrel (scuirus carolinensis)Opossum (didelphis virginiana)White-tailed deer (odocoileus virginianus)Rats (rattus rattus and rattus norvegicus)American mink (neogale or neovision vision)Groundhog (marmota monax)Raccoon (procyon lotor)