Resistance is Fertile: It's Time to Start Guerrilla Gardening

By Shira | Jul 15, 08 05:38 PM

My latest article is up on MediaRights.org. Here's a taste:

In more recent years, guerrilla gardening has exploded in cities like Chicago and New York where waves of development have too often ignored the need for green space. In neighborhoods on the cusp of gentrification, like where I live in Bushwick, Brooklyn, it is very common to walk down a block and see three or four empty, fenced-in lots that have been bought by developers, but which are just sitting there, collecting trash. For this scenario, guerrilla gardeners have come up with the perfect weapon - the seed bomb.

And a great video on the topic...


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Hey Shira, I love your blog! Thanks for posting the seedbombing video, I was thrilled to see it in the MediaRights article (which was awesome by the way). I'm so glad to see guerilla gardening starting to pick up some steam...

Posted by: Dorothee | July 16, 2008 04:04 PM

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