{"product_id":"tiny-gardens-everywhere-a-history-of-urban-resilience","title":"Tiny Gardens Everywhere: A History Of Urban Resilience","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA big history of little spaces, of nature in urban life, and of gardeners and their gardens through time\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Splendid' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Galvanising and hugely readable' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A wonder! Absolutely riveting and beautifully written' \u003c\/b\u003eIsabella Tree\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A fascinating, globe-spanning history' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eBBC Gardeners' World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the heart of our bustling cities lie overlooked yet vibrant corners of resilience, ingenuity and magic: our gardens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcclaimed historian Kate Brown takes us 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, to encounter ordinary people, working with each other and with nature, have cultivated life in the unlikeliest of places. Over the past three hundred years, these tiny patches of land, often born from necessity and shaped by precarity, immigration and environmental crisis, have thrived by recycling nutrients and remedying contaminated soil, transforming how we think about our relationship to the earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTiny Gardens Everywhere\u003c\/i\u003e is a hymn to community, repair and the quiet revolutions that begin when someone plants a seed in unloved ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Engaging and inspiring. A fascinating history into the quietly radical role of allotments ... Superb' \u003c\/b\u003eChris Fitch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A kind of updated urban Berry' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'She deftly combines ... pressing ecological concerns with an absorbing narrative history' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eCountry Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kate Brown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68026642006194,"sku":"9781529979732","price":345.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/files\/9781529979732.jpg?v=1794618127","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/tiny-gardens-everywhere-a-history-of-urban-resilience","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}