Kate Brown

Tiny Gardens Everywhere (eBook, ePUB)

The Past, Present, and Future of the Self-Provisioning City

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the eighteenth century to the twentyfirst, the surprising history and inspiring contemporary panorama of urban gardening: nurturing health, hope, and community.

This manifesto for the next food revolution by acclaimed environmental historian Kate Brown speaks to nature lovers, food activists, socialjustice warriors, urban planners, WOOFers, and the climateconcerned.

Ever since wage labor in cities replaced selfprovisioning in the countryside, gardeners have reclaimed lost commons on urban lots. They composted garbage into topsoil, creating the most productive agriculture in recorded human history, without use of fossil fuels. The ecological diversity they fostered made room for human difference and built prosperity, too: in Nazi Berlin, workingclass gardeners harbored dissidents and Jews; in Washington, DC, Black southern migrants built communities around gardens and orchards, the produce funding homeownership.

Grafting contemporary experience and concerns onto every historical chapter, Brown creates a mesmerizing hybrid past and present, archive and experience, showing how downtoearth gardeners can reap abundant harvests while fostering mutual aid and political engagement.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781324105848
• Artikelnr.: 75601451

Autorenporträt

Kate Brown is Distinguished Professor in the History of Science at MIT and author of four previous prize-winning books, including A Manual for Survival, an NBCC Award finalist. She currently plants her gardens in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in Vermont.