 Cities and community gardens 
The article analyzes the geography of gender present in community gardens of two European metropolises: Grenoble, France and Rotterdam, Netherlands. The aim is to explain the relationships between gender, space, nature and the metropolis. We chose a pluri-disciplinary approach to identify a “garden effect” produced mainly by women in contemporary spatial and urban organization. The notions of gender and care have been mobilized to question a different relationship with nature in the city. As part of a conception of geography which sheds light on injustices, whether spatial or social, this research defines the place women occupy in these spaces. A mixed methodology of social geography and social psychology (positive psychology) was chosen to make explicit the place, relationships and well-being of women gardeners. The results clearly show that women are personally invested in community gardens, are happy to cultivate there and feel close to nature—a nature they created and to which they contribute. The identification of underlying mechanisms which explain how genders unfold in gardens has led us to propose various arrangements produced by female gardeners in Grenoble and Rotterdam.