Guerrilla Gardening

A Manualfesto

De: David Tracey

Narrado por: David Tracey

The term "guerrilla" may bring to mind a small band of armed soldiers, moving in the dead of night on a stealth mission. In the case of guerilla gardening, the soldiers are planters, the weapons are shovels, and the mission is to transform an abandoned lot into a thing of beauty. Once an environmentalist's nonviolent direct action for inner-city renewal, this approach to urban beautification is spreading to all types of people in cities around the world.

These modern-day Johnny Appleseeds perform random acts of gardening, often without the property owner's prior knowledge or permission. Typical targets are vacant lots, railway land, underused public squares, and back alleys. The concept is simple, whimsical, and has the cheeky appeal of being a not-quite-legal call to action. Dig in some soil, plant a few seeds, or mend a sagging fence—one good deed inspiring another, with win-win results all around.

Guerrilla Gardening outlines the power-to-the-people campaign for greening our cities. Tips for effective involvement include:

• Finding plants and seeds cheap (or free)
• Handling city officials
• Getting the dirt on soil
• Planting to bring back the birds
• Knowing when to ask permission and when to seek forgiveness

Social activists, city dwellers and long-time gardeners will delight in this fast-paced and funny call to arms.

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©2007 David Tracey (P)2022 New Society Publishers

Inspiring

If you’re searching for a hopeful, constructive way forward through the capitalistic hellscape we find ourselves living in, your search may well end here. The world needs more plants and some—not all, but some—are definitely contained within.

what I was looking for

I'm a gardener who started in South Florida and has now moved to Madison Wisconsin and I learned about guerilla gardening by accident quite a while ago and thought it was a great idea but never acted upon it.

I am now living in Wisconsin and I have a very large city Greenway behind my house that just fills up with overgrown weeds and for the last two years I've been planting sunflower seeds heavily in an extension of my garden and milkweed down by the city runoff area where the water flows after heavy rains.

I am noticing monarch butterflies and birds that I have not seen in this particular area before. I'm hoping the birds deposit some of the seeds into the city Greenway but I am going to do my part some evening this fall.