guerilla gardening
April 30th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized
guerilla gardening
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Guerrilla gardeners dig in
Irish Times, Ireland Guerrilla gardening is transforming neglected corners of cities the world over. As a new flower bed is created on a patch of public land in Booterstown this week , YVONNE GORDON hears about the motives that drive the movement DON'T BE SURPRISED if you … |
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The secret life of the 'guerilla gardener'
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom Although what these so-called "guerrilla gardeners" are doing is illegal, she has no intention of calling the police. Guerrilla gardening may sound anarchic but it is the preserve of middle-class people frustrated by the downtrodden appearance of their … |
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Armed with seeds
Baltimore Sun, United States Guerrilla gardening is planting without permission. It's an underground taking-back-the-land movement, a hidden but also obvious action, like planting flowers on an abandoned lot. It's accessible on a lot of different levels, both by the people doing … |
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Guerilla gardener makes it fun to get your hands dirty
Hampstead and Highgate Express, UK A NEW guide to DIY and guerrilla gardening offers advice on how to plant a living salad, make a seed bomb or build your own polytunnel. Growing Stuff (Black Dog Publishing £16.95) subtitled An Alternative Guide to Gardening, aims to tap into the modern … |
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Fertile ground makes good things grow
Common Ground.ca, Canada Urban farming, guerilla gardening, community supported agriculture and other acts of community building have now become acts of solidarity that offer nourishment for a community, and in some instances, providing places of physical and spiritual healing … |
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Guerrilla gardeners use flower power to tidy up city
Scotsman, United Kingdom By Andrew Picken "Guerrilla gardening" has arrived in the Capital after a group of volunteers took it upon themselves to transform a patch of council-owned wasteland in the city's Southside. local activists taking over abandoned parcels of land in … |
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‘Guerilla’ garden paves way for food production
Byron Shire News, Australia “You are almost the first in Australia to legitimise guerrilla gardening,” he told the enthusiastic crowd of locals and their children who had turned up for the honour of planting the fruit trees and herbs in the garden. He praised Byron Shire Council … |
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I've no regrets over becoming a guerrilla (gardener, that is)
Herald.ie, Ireland But, this is no ordinary Sunday afternoon walk in the local garden centre . . . this is 'Guerrilla Gardening'. For any sort of social movement that hopes to be successful, it is vital to give it an exciting name, because who wants to join a revolution … |
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Guerrilla gardeners with green thumbs
Sydney Star Observer, Australia Enter Guerrilla Gardeners, a DIY gardening show which takes Backyard Blitz on to the streets, adding a healthy dose of cloak and dagger … just enough to get the adrenaline pumping. The premise is simple: a crack team of landscape architects, … |
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Folk's virtuoso of dissent
The Australian, Australia That phase as a "cultural guerilla" facilitated the US folk music boom of the '60s, not least by insinuating into the popular consciousness many songs that most Americans now take for granted. That includes This Land is Your Land. … |
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