School Gardens in the United States: Current Barriers to Integration and Sustainability.

Objectives: To elucidate details about the barriers (time, funding, staffing, and space) to integrating and sustaining school gardens.

Methods: A total of 99 school gardeners from 15 states participated in an online survey in June 2017. The 29-item survey contained qualitative and quantitative items that we analyzed using descriptive statistics and inductive content analysis.