For philosophizing gardeners and anyone who likes to pick up a spade and get their hands dirty
Gardeners
discover a new world every year—whether they’re cultivating heirloom
vegetables, foraging for wild herbs, creating a small permaculture
garden on a city balcony, or maintaining a plot for self-sufficiency.
But
why garden at all? These personal essays by writers, designers, and
master gardeners dig into gardening’s philosophical dimensions and tend
to the aesthetic, cultural, political, and sociological implications of
gardens and the people who keep them.
Originally published in
German, this delightful volume addresses gardening’s most deep-rooted
questions and highlights the magic that, year after year, makes us pick
up a shovel and get back into the garden.
Awarded the German Garden Book Prize in the Best Garden Prose Category
“What
is remarkable is that the publication project is something very
individual… the spectrum ranges from the ‘plea for weeds’ to the
‘metaphysics’ of the garden to urban gardening and garden shows, and the
realization that gardens are ‘hopelessly ambivalent’—all in all a very
interesting volume.” – Jury Citation
- English
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Subtopic
Urban Planning & LandscapingIndex
Biological SciencesTable of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Info
- Translatorās Note
- Iām in the GardenāIn Lieu of a Foreword
- Leaves That Mean the WorldāHow We Express Our Relationship to the World in the Garden
- Among Garden Friends
- A Plea for Weeds
- In Praise of the Unassuming
- Planting, Saving, and Propagating Heirloom Vegetables
- Gardening in Tune with Nature
- On the Metaphysics of the Garden
- Urban PermacultureāCity Gardening with a Hidden Agenda
- Gardening is Commoning
- Learning by DiggingāWhat You Can Learn from Community Gardening
- Garden Shows as Driving ForceāThe Staging of Urban Green Spaces
- Let It Grow
- A Green Thumb Requires Your Whole Hand
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