Guerilla
Gardening
Guerrilla gardening is the art of using a piece of land which
you do not own to grow something.
'One step removed from actual guerrilla warfare, guerrilla gardening
takes land not for the people, but for nature; returning misused
or disused land and finding a purpose for it, turning rotting
sods of grass outside some condemned building into a vegetable
patch, a clump of daffodils, or a flowering rosebush.'
Probably started by travelers and gypsies, GG became an actual
movement in 70's America.
The planting-as-protest began with a New York group called the
Green Guerrillas. These urban horticulturists started off crudely
by lobbing seeds and plants into abandoned, debris-filled lots,
but eventually converted hundreds of these lots into flower-
and vegetable-filled community gardens.
The movement has since spread around the world (one slogan:
"Resistance Is Fertile") and now operates under
the more general rubric of guerrilla gardening'.
In the UK, Guerilla gardening has become part of the May day
protests and is a more secretive organisation.
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Read more:
News article - Vandalizing
with nature
You Grow Girl' - yougrowgirl.com
Green Guerillas - www.greenguerillas.org
Primal seeds - www.primalseeds.org
Urban 75 article
Books:
Guerrilla Gardening: How to Create Gorgeous Gardens for Free
by Barbara Pallenberg.
Read more at:
www.primalseeds.org/guerilla.htm
Related organic links:
Soil association - www.whyorganic.org
Guerilla gardening.
publicspace.ca/gardeners.htm
Peoples food sovereignty.
www.peoplesfoodsovereignty.org
Spiral seed - permaculture and courses.
www.spiralseed.co.uk
Organic
Gardening Resources - is a directory of editor-written reviews
of useful, non-commercial advice and tips, concerning a wide
range topics pertaining to organic gardening.
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