My Garden Used to be a Brownfield
How my neighbors transformed the toxic dump out back into a blooming garden
By Kate Brown
Substack
Nov 29, 2025
Excerpt:
Scott had the idea of turning their backyard mess into a garden, but he had a full-time job. The two carpenters, Peter and Harry (I’ve changed their names for privacy) ordered up a dumpster and over two weekends a dozen neighbors set about taking down the barn. In the back of the barn, they cleared out a pit, eight feet wide, where the old owners had dumped solvents. That is what people used to do with toxic waste, toss it down a hole, into a stream, or down a ravine to make it disappear, or, at least, to make it appear to disappear.
Sociologists Scott Frickel and James Elliott in Sites Unseen tracked down in several US cities scores of forgotten brown fields, places where once had been a gas station, warehouse, or dry cleaner. These tiny, former industrial sites are too numerous and banal to be categorized by the Environmental Protection Agency, but, as my neighbors found, contaminated waste dumps can be located right under your nose.
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/my-garden-used-to-be-a-brownfield/
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