Events Author Talk: Tiny Gardens Everywhere: A History of Urban Resilience
February 18, 2026 MIT Museum Organizer: MIT Museum
MIT historian Kate Brown will introduce her new book, Tiny Gardens Everywhere: A History of Urban Resilience, in a talk on February 18th at the MIT museum. The book discusses the surprisingly critical role urban gardens have played in providing a means of survival when governments would or could not. From Nazi Germany, where gardeners harbored enemies of the state, to post-Soviet Estonia, where gardens provided a vital food source in the midst of economic turmoil, to Washington, D.C. where the fruits of gardens planted by Black migrants from the South led to homeownership, the work traces stories of urban agriculture spanning continents and centuries.