Chapter One: Gardens and the Anthropocene -- What this book is -- What this book is not -- Aims and structure of the book -- State of the art -- The Anthropocene -- The planet and I -- Chapter Two: Gardens and Cities -- Cities -- Food -- City Gardens -- Ecological benefits of urban gardening -- Social benefits of urban gardening -- Concluding remarks -- Chapter Three: Gardens and Culture -- The nature/culture divide -- Human exceptionalism -- Anthropocentrism -- Concluding remarks -- Chapter Four: Gardens and Morals -- Individual moral obligations in the Anthropocene -- Self-offsetting -- Urban gardening and systemic reform -- Why gardening -- Concluding remarks -- Chapter Five: Gardens and Ethics -- Virtue -- Environmental virtue -- Virtue in the Anthropocene -- Virtues for the Anthropocene -- Concluding Remarks -- Chapter Six: Gardens and Politics -- Governance Challenges -- Legitimacy challenges -- The Anthropocene and the public/private distinction -- Environmental pragmatism, agrarianism, and civic republicanism -- Gardens, public goods, and operative democracy -- Concluding remarks -- Conclusion.