Tiny Gardens Everywhere - Kate Brown

A big history of little spaces, of nature in urban life, and of gardeners and their gardens through time‘What a wonder this book is! Absolutely riveting and beautifully written. I hope we can all heed its wisdom’ ISABELLA TREE'Splendid' Mail on Sunday'Engaging and inspiring. A fascinating history into the quietly radical role of allotments' CHRIS FITCHIn the heart of bustling European and American cities lies an overlooked yet vibrant corner of resilience, ingenuity and magic: our gardens. From pre-industrial England to modern-day Ohio, via the Paris Commune, Barackia in pre-war Berlin, Soviet allotments in Estonia, the orchards tended by Black migrants in Washington and food forests in contemporary Amsterdam, ordinary people, working with each other and with nature, cultivated life in the unlikeliest of places. Over the past three hundred years, these tiny gardens, often born from necessity and shaped by precarity, immigration and environmental crisis, have thrived by recycling nutrients, remedying contaminated soil and transforming how we think about our relationship to the earth. Tiny Gardens Everywhere is a hymn to the most fertile agriculture in recorded human history, showing that it occurred not on farms – the product of gigantic exertions of fossil fuels and technology – but with little effort in small garden beds. And the resourcefulness, intuition and inherited methods of their growers accomplished many of today’s sustainability
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