Tiny Gardens Everywhere, with MIT's Kate Brown

About this episode

Kate Brown discusses her research on urban gardens and the insights from her book on self-provisioning cities.

Kate Brown is an MIT Distinguished Professor in the History of Science. Across her career, her research has sometimes inadvertently documented the impact of urban, often small and under-resourced gardens and gardeners in our world. Her new book, Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present, and Future of the Self-Provisioning City, compiles this research and her own lived experience of its truth and potential benefits. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com.

People in this episode

Host: Jennifer Jewell

Guest: Kate Brown

Topics covered

• urban gardening
• self-provisioning city
• history of science
• community gardens
• sustainability

Keywords

• urban gardens
• self-provisioning
• sustainability
• community
• gardening

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: MIT

Books & works: Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present, and Future of the Self-Provisioning City

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