Gardening at the Margins: Convivial Labor, Community, and Resistance

“Beyond being a beautifully written ethnographic account of a culturally and biologically diverse community in the Santa Clara Valley growing food, embodying relationships with land and neighbors, and healing urban landscapes and bodies harmed by racial capitalism, Gardening at the Margins is also a survival guide. The stories of the gardeners provide a blueprint for surviving and resisting in impossible circumstances through multiple generations’ worth of agroecological knowledge.” —Dvera I. Saxton, author of The Devil’s Fruit: Farmworkers, Health, and Environmental Justice