Tiny Gardens Everywhere

A$55 · Offered by Harry Hartog Rare Books

From the enclosures in seventeenth-century England to the food forests in modern Amsterdam, this is a big history of little spaces, of nature in urban life, and of gardeners and their gardens through time A big history of little spaces, of nature in urban life, and of gardeners and their gardens through time 'Galvanising and hugely readable' Financial Times 'A wonder! Absolutely riveting and beautifully written. I hope we can all heed its wisdom' ISABELLA TREE 'Splendid' Mail on Sunday 'Engaging and inspiring. A fascinating history into the quietly radical role of allotments' CHRIS FITCH In the heart of our bustling cities lie overlooked yet vibrant corners of resilience, ingenuity and magic: our gardens. From 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. Tiny Gardens Everywhere 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 fue

• Binding: Hardcover

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