Kate Brown — Tiny Gardens Everywhere
Historian Kate Brown examines urban gardening, ecology, and community resilience, in conversation with food journalist Tom Philpott.
Why we picked this
Kate Brown — who wrote the definitive book on Chernobyl — turns to something smaller and more hopeful: the quiet power of urban gardens to reshape how we live.
Kate Brown, the award-winning historian whose previous work has examined nuclear disasters and environmental devastation, pivots to a more intimate scale with a book about urban gardening and the communities that form around it. In conversation with food journalist Tom Philpott, Brown explores how small patches of cultivated earth can become sites of ecological resilience and social connection.
Brown brings a historian’s eye to what might seem like a simple subject, revealing the political and environmental forces that shape who gets to garden, where, and why it matters. Her work consistently finds the large inside the small.
The event is free at Politics and Prose’s Union Market location.