Black Women's Gardens as Art and Practice examines the multifaceted ways in which gardens have served-and continue to serve-as sites of artistic expression, activism, and self-care for African American women. Moving from antebellum "patch gardens" to present-day marijuana cultivation, the eleven essays of this interdisciplinary volume illustrate how gardens and the craft of gardening have sustained Black women for generations. They also illuminate how gardens have served as liminal spaces between Black women's public and private lives.

Gardens are more than plots of tilled ground; in this collection, they are rich, underexplored archives. Black Women's Gardens as Art and Practice explores how gardens and gardening have offered African American women a means of self-expression while also providing much-needed sanctuary from racial and gender oppression-gardens and the practice of gardening are integral to African American women's history, creativity, and knowledge production.