How ‘Tiny Gardens Everywhere’ Can Sustain Us
By How ‘Tiny Gardens Everywhere’ Can Sustain Us
KQED
Feb 16, 2026
Excerpt:
Alexis Madrigal: So good. Thanks for joining us. This really is a bottom-up history of urban gardening, both in terms of socioeconomic status—thinking about the ways that working people are gardening—and also looking at agriculture kind of from the soil up, in particular. When did you first get interested in the intersection of those two things?
Kate Brown: Oh, that’s a great question. You know, it was 2020, and we’re all home—it’s COVID. A friend of mine and I were both gardeners, and we thought, well, you know, this school across the street—I was in Washington, DC at the time—is mothballed, and there’s nobody around. So why don’t we just slip in some fig trees and pawpaw and persimmon, maybe some raspberries and thornless blackberries in the understory, and some strawberries on the ground?
We had a little bit of permission from the school gardener. This is a school where Michelle Obama had started her school garden campaign, and it’s in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of DC. And we just started planting.
I already knew how much food a person could grow on something about the size of two dining room tables. We fed my small family of three with that produce. And we made this kind of food forest around the school. That’s what got me thinking about the power—both of how much food you can grow in urban areas that are rich with organic nutrients, but also how much community comes out of the woodwork when you’re sitting outside and there are figs popping out and strawberries on the ground, and kids are delighted.
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