Planting Roots: An Oral and Visual History of Polish Immigrant Gardening in Chicagoland
Immigrants’ means of making home have arisen as an important locus of study amidst the ever-present cycles of migration coloring our world. This work takes a homemaking lens to address the home gardening practices and related environmental interactions of Polish immigrants in the Chicago area. It mixes oral history, ethnographic garden walks, as well as the arts-based research methods of autobiogr