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Guerrilla gardening
Guerrilla gardening is the act of gardening – raising food, plants, or flowers – on land that gardeners do not have the legal right to cultivate, such as abandoned sites, neglected public spaces, or private property. It encompasses a diverse range of people and motivations, ranging from gardeners who garden beyond their legal boundaries in defiance of state or local property laws, to gardeners with a deliberate political purpose, who seek to initiate change by using guerrilla gardening methods as a form of protest or direct action.
Guerrilla gardening often challenges social norms concerning land rights, aiming to promote criticism of how public institutions or private land owners manage property, by repurposing or reclaiming land perceived as being neglected or misused by its legal owners.
Some gardeners work at night in relative secrecy, in an effort to make the area more useful or attractive, while others garden during the day.
Two historical examples of gardeners who engaged in guerrilla gardening were the politically radical English Diggers of the 17th century, and the 18th-century American pioneer Johnny Appleseed, who planted apple tree seedlings on unclaimed frontier land as a business venture.
The earliest recorded use of the term guerrilla gardening was by Liz Christy and her Green Guerrilla group in 1973 in the Bowery Houston area of New York. They transformed a derelict private lot into a garden. The space is still cared for by volunteers but now enjoys the protection of the city's parks department.
Guerrilla gardening takes place in many parts of the world—more than thirty countries are documented and evidence can be found online in numerous guerrilla gardening social networking groups and in the Community pages of GuerrillaGardening.org. The term bewildering has been used as a synonym for guerrilla gardening by Australian gardener Bob Crombie.
Since 2007, May 1 has been celebrated as an annual International Sunflower Guerrilla Day, in which guerrilla gardeners plant sunflowers in their neighborhoods.
Guerrilla gardening is prominent in Melbourne where most of the inner northern suburbs have community vegetable gardens; land adjoining rail lines has undergone regeneration of the native vegetation, including nature strips. There are a few minor disputes between guerrilla gardeners in Melbourne, with most falling into one of two groups: those concerned most with native planting and those concerned most with communal food growing. However, people with differing opinions still work together without dispute.
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Guerrilla gardening
Guerrilla gardening is the act of gardening – raising food, plants, or flowers – on land that gardeners do not have the legal right to cultivate, such as abandoned sites, neglected public spaces, or private property. It encompasses a diverse range of people and motivations, ranging from gardeners who garden beyond their legal boundaries in defiance of state or local property laws, to gardeners with a deliberate political purpose, who seek to initiate change by using guerrilla gardening methods as a form of protest or direct action.
Guerrilla gardening often challenges social norms concerning land rights, aiming to promote criticism of how public institutions or private land owners manage property, by repurposing or reclaiming land perceived as being neglected or misused by its legal owners.
Some gardeners work at night in relative secrecy, in an effort to make the area more useful or attractive, while others garden during the day.
Two historical examples of gardeners who engaged in guerrilla gardening were the politically radical English Diggers of the 17th century, and the 18th-century American pioneer Johnny Appleseed, who planted apple tree seedlings on unclaimed frontier land as a business venture.
The earliest recorded use of the term guerrilla gardening was by Liz Christy and her Green Guerrilla group in 1973 in the Bowery Houston area of New York. They transformed a derelict private lot into a garden. The space is still cared for by volunteers but now enjoys the protection of the city's parks department.
Guerrilla gardening takes place in many parts of the world—more than thirty countries are documented and evidence can be found online in numerous guerrilla gardening social networking groups and in the Community pages of GuerrillaGardening.org. The term bewildering has been used as a synonym for guerrilla gardening by Australian gardener Bob Crombie.
Since 2007, May 1 has been celebrated as an annual International Sunflower Guerrilla Day, in which guerrilla gardeners plant sunflowers in their neighborhoods.
Guerrilla gardening is prominent in Melbourne where most of the inner northern suburbs have community vegetable gardens; land adjoining rail lines has undergone regeneration of the native vegetation, including nature strips. There are a few minor disputes between guerrilla gardeners in Melbourne, with most falling into one of two groups: those concerned most with native planting and those concerned most with communal food growing. However, people with differing opinions still work together without dispute.