Tiny Gardens Everywhere, with MIT's Kate Brown

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

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Tiny Gardens Everywhere, with MIT's Kate Brown is an episode from Cultivating Place by Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place.

This episode is 00:58:08 long.

This episode was published on May 14, 2026.

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