Immigrant home gardens: Places of religion, culture, ecology, and family

► The importance of home gardens in the lives of immigrants is evident in the ways they use these spaces. ► Immigrant home gardens perform as (a) religious space; (b) culture space; (c) ecological space; (d) space for family memory. ► Immigrant home gardens enable creation of landscapes remembered from their past, the forming of attachment and rootedness in the new landscape, religious place making, ties to family, and socialization of the next generation.