{"product_id":"9781847929259-tiny-gardens-everywhere","title":"Tiny Gardens Everywhere","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA History of Urban Resilience\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA big history of little spaces, of nature in urban life, and of gardeners and their gardens through time\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘What a wonder this book is! Absolutely riveting and beautifully written. I hope we can all heed its wisdom’ \u003c\/b\u003eISABELLA TREE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Splendid' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Engaging and inspiring. A fascinating history into the quietly radical role of allotments' \u003c\/b\u003eCHRIS FITCH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the heart of bustling European and American cities lies an overlooked yet vibrant corner of resilience, ingenuity and magic: our gardens.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTiny Gardens Everywhere\u003c\/i\u003e 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 goals by producing local, diverse and organic food.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcclaimed historian Kate Brown unearths the long and battered story of gardeners and their gardens, asking what happens when these urban Edens are not seen as retreats from the city but become part of its social fabric, alive with histories of displacement, conflict and resistance. This is a book about land, but also about community, repair and the quiet revolutions that begin when someone plants a seed in unloved ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55893361885558,"sku":"9781847929259","price":20.28,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_39157930_7dbf953a-ae5c-4f0f-864f-897c2060ef2b.jpg?v=1766440259","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781847929259-tiny-gardens-everywhere","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}