About this Event
Join us on March 12th at 6pm as we host Kate Brown in conversation with Bathsheba Demuth to discuss her latest book, Tiny Gardens Everywhere. Signed copies of the book will be available for purchase!
About the book:
From the eighteenth century to the twenty–first, the surprising history and inspiring contemporary panorama of urban gardening: nurturing health, hope, and community.
This manifesto for the next food revolution by acclaimed environmental historian Kate Brown speaks to nature lovers, food activists, social–justice warriors, urban planners, WOOFers, and the climate–concerned.
Ever since wage labor in cities replaced self–provisioning in the countryside, gardeners have reclaimed lost commons on urban lots. They composted garbage into topsoil, creating the most productive agriculture in recorded human history, without use of fossil fuels. The ecological diversity they fostered made room for human difference and built prosperity, too: in Nazi Berlin, working–class gardeners harbored dissidents and Jews; in Washington, DC, Black southern migrants built communities around gardens and orchards, the produce funding homeownership.
Grafting contemporary experience and concerns onto every historical chapter, Kate Brown creates a mesmerizing hybrid past and present, archive and experience, showing how down–to–earth gardeners can reap abundant harvests while fostering mutual aid and political engagement.
About the author:
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.
About the moderator:
Bathsheba Demuth is a writer and environmental historian specializing in the Russian and North American Arctic, and author of Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait. Currently she is writing a biography of the Yukon River watershed from the beginning of colonization to the era of climate change and has spent the last several years traveling the river by boat and dog team. She is the Dean’s Associate Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Symposium Books, 240 Westminster Street, Providence, United States
USD 0.00 to USD 35.97
