Kate Brown
MIT environmental historian and author of Tiny Gardens Everywhere, who researches the history and social importance of urban gardening and self-provisioning cities.
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Feb 17, 2026 • 55min
How ‘Tiny Gardens Everywhere’ Can Sustain Us
Kate Brown, MIT environmental historian and author of Tiny Gardens Everywhere, explores the global history of small urban gardens and their role in city resilience. She discusses school food forests, household plots versus urban farms, enclosure and labor shifts, Soviet allotments, reclaiming public land for curbside growing, and gardens as community-builders and cultural bridges.
