Sprouting pasts: Migration, cultivation, and landscape making in Amsterdam Nieuw-West

European historiography has traditionally emphasized the influence of rural-urban migration in establishing city food cultivation during the industrial period. Limited attention though has been paid to the contribution of international migrants to the more recent history of urban gardening in Europe. This paper focuses on the Amsterdam district Nieuw-West, a postwar urban expansion with a majority migrant population, many of whom are actively engaged in cultivating food across the neighborhood's abundant green. Drawing on oral history interviews, archival sources, and ethnographic fieldwork involving participatory gardening, the paper analyzes the relationship between the resident's biographies and the transformation of this postwar green infrastructure into an increasingly edible landscape since the 1980s. I argue that the continuities of gardening practice, embodied know-how, and stewardship which migrant residents have brought to local green spaces amount to a collective act of landscape authorship; even as their making of landscape has been contingent on postwar planning ideologies and neoliberal urban renewal agendas that have obscured and undermined these very continuities of practice, memory, and care. The paper makes the case for approaching sites of cultivation as the outcome of entangled histories of land and people, and of the futures anticipated within them.