Tiny Gardens Everywhere

““Proves that gardening is not just a way to produce food but also a tool of self-empowerment.”” – Briefly Noted - The New Yorker
““Kate Brown’s Tiny Gardens Everywhere takes the argument about the future of food to the streets and cities of North America and Europe, a kind of updated urban Berry. Her book is kaleidoscopic and humanistic; it is part memoir, part history, and part manifesto, grounded in place and featuring the diffracted view of many examples… Her multinational survey of the past and present offers a push for policy reform that takes urban land as an opportunity for growth.”” – Benjamin Cohen - Los Angeles Review of Books
“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
“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
“A sparkling new history of urban areas demonstrating that they have long been full of vibrant green shoots. Diving into this visionary blend of history, memoir, and political insight is like eating a salad of fresh spring greens with a sprinkling of wild strawberries?refreshing, delightful, and nourishing for both mind and spirit.” – Tiya Miles, author of Wild Girls and All That She Carried
“For urban farmers worldwide, this vibrant secret history validates our work and guides future gardeners toward better composting, radical use of common spaces, and plenty of zucchini.” – Novella Carpenter, author of Farm City and The Essential Urban Farmer
“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
“What a wonder this book is! Absolutely riveting. I hope we can heed its wisdom.” – Isabella Tree, author of Wilding
”“Offers small garden pockets across the globe and through time… where urban agriculture tendered hope and resistance to political, social, and environmental crises. I recommend this to everyone who finds calm in putting their hands in the soil.”” – Jessica Varner, Assistant Professor of Landscape and Environmental History at the University of Pennsylvania
“Engaging and inspiring. A fascinating history into the quietly radical role of allotments and guerrilla gardening. A reminder that cities are still places where plants can thrive, where people can connect to the earth, despite all the concrete, brick and asphalt. Superb.” – Chris Fitch, author of Wild Cities: Discovering New Ways of Living in the Modern Urban Jungle
“Brown, an environmental historian, offers a blueprint for the future in this punchy narrative about all manner of urban gardeners in the U.S. and abroad… Brown’s book shows us that inspiration for a new food system doesn’t have to be so hard. A riveting social history of the world, as seen through gardens.” – Kirkus (starred review)

Kate Brown is a distinguished professor in the history of science at MIT and author of four previous prize-winning books, including Manual for Survival, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. She currently plants her gardens in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Greensboro, Vermont.

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