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DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with acclaimed MIT historian Kate Br
 own\, author of Tiny Gardens Everywhere\, in dialogue with Antoine Picon\,
  as they explore the deep\, surprising\, and often radical history of urba
 n gardening.\n\nPart history\, part reportage\, part manifesto\, Tiny Gard
 ens Everywhere: The Past\, Present\, and Future of the Self-Provisioning C
 ity follows the roots of urban gardening from feudal England to a late nin
 eteenth century utopia outside of Berlin to 1960s Washington DC to contemp
 orary Amsterdam\, Chicago\, and beyond. Throughout this history\, Brown we
 aves in her own gardening experience\, exploring the political and the pra
 ctical while painting a picture of the necessity of self-provisioning in a
 n increasingly chaotic world.\n\nEver since wage labor in cities replaced 
 self-provisioning in the countryside\, gardeners have reclaimed lost commo
 ns on urban lots. They composted garbage into topsoil\, creating the most 
 productive agriculture in recorded human history\, without use of fossil f
 uels. The ecological diversity they fostered made room for human differenc
 e and built prosperity\, too: in Nazi Berlin\, working-class gardeners har
 bored dissidents and Jews\; in Washington\, DC\, Black southern migrants b
 uilt communities around gardens and orchards\, the produce funding homeown
 ership. The Soviet superpower survived so long only because of its urban g
 ardens.\n\nCopies of Tiny Gardens Everywhere will be available for purchas
 e and signing after the talk\, courtesy of the MIT Press Bookstore.\n\nFeb
 ruary 18\n6pm - 7pm\n$5\n\nWe have a limited number of free tickets availa
 ble for students. Please reach out to museumregadmin@mit.edu.
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LOCATION:MIT Museum
SUMMARY:Tiny Gardens Everywhere: A History of Urban Resilience
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