To Dwell Is To Garden: A History Of Boston's Community Gardens
In the heart of a squalid city, community gardens are oases of productivity for the resident gardenersa source of satisfaction and pride for some of the city's least-powerful people. As Warner points out, community gardens have a long history, from the "allotment gardens" of England to the back-to-nature plots of the 1960s. Focusing on the Boston area, this study describes in the gardeners' own words and in photographs the importance of gardens to the neighborhood and the individual. The ethnic heritages of the gardeners are seen in the variety of crops grown; the book's final section considers the vegetables grown in the Anglo-Irish, the Afro-American, the Italian, the Chinese, and the Hispanic garden. Well-written and photographed, but of interest mainly to sociologists and students of the history of horticulture. Pamela R. Daubenspeck, Warren-Trumbull Cty. P.L., Warren, OhioCopyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.