Image © The Pothole Gardener
What is it about Guerrilla Gardening? No matter how many times you see it happen, or hear about a new verge planting, it’s always exciting. Is it the fact that growing tomatoes is actually that invigorating?
Or is it that people’s small acts of community are that much needed? Either way, here’s a few things I’ve come across this week. First up, vigilante gardening in Brooklyn NYC. Small scale, but full of implications.
and the completion of the project:
And then here’s a pothole garden from London:
Image © The Pothole Gardener
And a micro wallgarden, by the same artist:
Image © The Pothole Gardener
Lastly, here’s a wee microclimate Nick and I made back in the days of art, as part of a commission by Govett-Brewster Gallery in New Zealand, on the streets of New Plymouth in 2007:
Microclimate 2007, by Cicada
What’s the latest great bit of guerrilla gardening you’ve come across?
We’ll be incorporating a taste of guerrilla gardening into our Urban Permaculture Design Course in Sydney this January, as part of 2 fabulous weeks of Permaclture design, theory and technique.
Links to the various garden vigilantes above:
Completely related posts on Milkwood.net:
- Funky Urban Permaculture Designs by VEG
- A visit to Sydney’s most Secret Permaculture Garden
- Why Rooftop Farming is where it’s at
Back when we lived in Seattle (before our move to the country), we had a neighbor that planted sunflowers in the one hole in the otherwise all cement sidewalk in front of his apartment building. We loved them so.
For me, the act of community is an essential element of guerilla gardening.
Here is a great little film with more of the pothole gardeners work:
http://www.youtube.com/thepotholegardener
Really enjoying your blog – inspirational!
Sometimes it feels more exciting and rewarding to me to revegetate those abandoned public spaces than to work/play in our own garden – perhaps because ‘out there’ is the opportunity to make a more noticeable difference, to share the produce and the passion…
http://compostcorner.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/guerrilla-gardening/