Tiny Gardens Everywhere: A History of Food Sovereignty and Urban Resilience

Acclaimed MIT historian Kate Brown speaks about her new book, Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present, and Future of the Self-Provisioning City. The book follows the roots of urban gardening from feudal England to a late nineteenth century utopia outside of Berlin to 1960s Washington DC to contemporary Amsterdam, Chicago, and beyond. Throughout this history, Brown weaves in her own gardening experience, exploring the political and the practical while painting a picture of the necessity of self-provisioning in an increasingly chaotic world. It's a book about ecologial possibilitiy, political hope, and the recovery and growth of fertile environmental grounds all around us.