About this Event
Exploring the Mycoverse Presents...
Tiny Gardens Everywhere Discussion
Organized and hosted by Aaron Tupac Sponsored by Arlington Garden
This fall and winter we are exploring the topics of how can we sustain ourselves with mushrooms as food, either by cultivating and foraging mushrooms. Asking what can conservation and better relationship look like through harvesting and growing food?
Two of our favorite thinkers in the Mycoverse, Donna Haraway and Anna Tsing, at an exhibition about fungi in the Netherlands, were asked about how they envisision the future of fungi and what stories are worth telling right now – Anna responded with creating community gardens and recommended fungi enthusiasts to read this book.
"Tiny Gardens 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
Before the event we invite you to read the book, though it is not required. We will have a group discussion about:
- How community gardens nuture not only ourselves but the planet too and,
- How can we incorporate fungi and mushrooms into our community gardens bringing food, sustainability, and awareness to the fungal world
About the book:
Nurturing health, hope, and community, gardeners in cities and suburbs are reclaiming lost commons, transforming vacant lots into vibrant plots, turning waste into compost, and recreating what was once the most productive agriculture in recorded human history.
In a history that has been hidden in plain sight, working-class gardeners have consistently played an outsized role. In London, they devised ways to feed themselves when wage labor fell short. In Paris, a superabundance of horse manure in the streets nourished urban gardens that fed two million residents. In Berlin, gardeners built social safety nets for those marginalized by the state. In Washington, DC, African American migrants brought rural traditions of self-provisioning that were later disrupted by “urban renewal.” In rustbelt Mansfield, Ohio, farming ex-cons grow hope for the city’s future. In post-Soviet Estonia, shared gardens became lifelines for survival amid economic upheaval. And in Amsterdam, activists are reclaiming sustainable farming practices in a sinking landscape oversaturated with fertilizers.
Tilled into this rich history of urban agriculture is an inspiring layer of contemporary activism. Each chapter includes contemporary stories of people from all walks of life who, in their gardens, are continuing a great tradition of mutual aid, political resistance, and bold experiments in sustainability.
A manifesto for the next food revolution, Tiny Gardens Everywhereblends past and present, archive and experience, to offer a truly inspiring vision of the transformative potential of gardening and urban life.
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Arlington Garden in Pasadena, 275 ARLINGTON DR, Pasadena, United States
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