Tiny Gardens Everywhere: A History of Urban Resilience

A galvanising, well researched and hugely readable history of small-scale, community-led food growing ... and points to a more equitable and productive way forward for food cultivation -- Lauren Indvik * Financial Times * A fascinating , globe-spanning history * BBC Gardeners' World * This manifesto of urban gardening explores how planted parcels of land can not only provide nutrition but also support social revolution ... Throughout, Brown proves that gardening is not just a way to produce food but also a tool of self-empowerment. * New Yorker * This timely book ... looks at the ingenious ways that city dwellers have carved out space for cultivating their own fruit and vegetables and why growing conditions in the city may actually be healthier than the countryside … splendid ... Tiny Gardens Everywhere makes a powerful case for more urban gardeners to be encouraged to grow their own produce … Could this be the time for town gardeners to dig for victory once again? -- Constance Craig Smith * Mail on Sunday * She deftly combines ... pressing ecological concerns with an absorbing narrative history -- Timothy Mowl * Country Life * What a wonder Tiny Gardens Everywhere is! This absolutely riveting, beautifully written book is a blueprint for how we can transform our cities by remembering the lessons of the past - how by simply providing space for gardens we can create happier, healthier communities, grow prolific, sustainable food and construct cities that are connected with the earth and a fairer way of living. How I hope we can all heed the wisdom of this astonishing book! -- Isabella Tree * author of WILDING * It is hard to imagine a city could double up not only as a system of food production, but a place where people can feel intimately connected to the land — and yet it is a story which Tiny Gardens Everywhere shows can be found across the world ... the multitude of examples in the book show that a garden is an act of communion with other species too, turning cities into multi-species ventures, instead of grey, concrete, lonely spaces. All that aside, the potential tiny gardens hold for transforming our mental health, and thus our ability to be in community, is perhaps the most pressing argument of all. -- Tallulah Brennan * Caught by the River * A kind of updated urban Berry. [Brown's] book is kaleidoscopic and humanistic; it is part memoir, part history, and part manifesto, grounded in place. -- Benjamin Cohen * Los Angeles Review of Books * With enviable skill, craft, and insight, Kate Brown shows that the past of small-scale urban provisioning contains the seeds of a more resilient future for us all. -- Sunil Amrith * author of THE BURNING EARTH * Tiny Gardens Everywhere shows us the path between the plot and the planet. It’s an amazing, beautiful book; I couldn’t put it down. -- Anna Tsing * author of THE MUSHROOM AT THE END OF THE WORLD *