Through vegetable gardening, residents of a small city in Michigan, USA, are striving to make their urban environments more socially equitable and ecologically sustainable. While gardeners across differences of class and race are motivated by a desire to change their environments and educate others, they do so in distinct ways due to different priorities. These range from neighborhood upkeep to ecological sustainability, and variation aligns with existing, intersecting forms of class distinction and racial differentiation. To engage the shared desires for equitable and sustainable urban life motivating gardeners, together with the class‐ and race‐based inequalities that shape and are shaped by their practices, this paper analyzes gardening as a form of social reproduction of the urban environment. Drawing on interviews and participant observation, this research examines the differences between gardens created for neighborhood upkeep as compared to those created for ecological sustainability, finding identifiable differences in gardening methods, spatial forms, and aesthetics directly related to gardeners’ motivations as they are shaped by experiences of race and class inequality. As both climate change and public disinvestment in social reproduction continue, the experiences of these gardeners indicate the insufficiency of shared motivations in realizing needs for just sustainability, and the importance of recognizing and responding to manifestations of social and environmental inequality in gardening motivation and practice.

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滋养环境，爱心城市：密歇根州工业界的园艺和城市环境的社会再生产

通过蔬菜园艺，美国密歇根州一个小城市的居民正在努力使他们的城市环境更加具有社会公平性和生态可持续性。面对不同阶级和种族差异的园丁出于改变环境和教育他人的愿望而受到激励，但由于工作重点的不同，他们以不同的方式这样做。这些范围从社区维护到生态可持续性，其变化与阶级区分和种族区分的现有，相交形式相吻合。为了激发人们对公平和可持续的城市生活的共同渴望，以激励园丁，以及基于阶级和种族的不平等现象，这种不平等现象是由他们的实践所塑造的，并由他们的实践所塑造，本文将园艺作为一种城市环境的社会复制形式进行分析。利用访谈和参与者观察，这项研究调查了为维护社区而创建的花园与为生态可持续性创建的花园之间的差异，发现了与种族和阶级不平等经历有关的，与园艺者动机直接相关的园艺方法，空间形式和美学差异。随着气候变化和公众对社会再生产的投资减少，这些园丁的经验表明，在实现对可持续性的需求方面缺乏共同动机，在园艺动机和实践中认识和应对社会和环境不平等现象的重要性也很重要。发现与种族和阶级不平等经历有关的园艺方法，空间形式和美学与园艺动机直接相关的可识别差异。随着气候变化和公众对社会再生产的投资减少，这些园丁的经验表明，在实现对可持续性的需求方面缺乏共同动机，在园艺动机和实践中认识和应对社会和环境不平等现象的重要性也很重要。发现与种族和阶级不平等经历有关的园艺方法，空间形式和美学与园艺动机直接相关的可识别差异。随着气候变化和公众对社会再生产的投资减少，这些园丁的经验表明，在实现对可持续性的需求方面缺乏共同动机，在园艺动机和实践中认识和应对社会和环境不平等现象的重要性也很重要。