Guerilla Gardening
Creating Small Kitchen Gardens in Public Spaces
…..with the aim make our local look and feel better, as a well as engaging with our local community. There are many variable reasons for taking up the idea of Guerilla gardening. As we have said it is primarily about engaging with the local community. We don’t just plant pretty flowers. We plant a whole host of plants that vary from trees, shrubs and other types of flora. They can range from edible food based plants, soil supporting flora. Basically we are planting nature back into our local areas.
Today there is a massive consenous that we need to make changes that will create a new green and authentic sustainable way of living. In light of this there is a new purpose around the use of the land, whether it is to reclaim land that is perceived to be in neglect or misused or to challenge those that own the land around us to use it responsibily. Remember to combat oyr climate issues is not longer an individuals problem. It is now a community issue and that includes those that own the land.
Improving the Look and Feel of our Local Spaces
Guerrilla gardening is the act of gardening – raising food, plants, or flowers – on land that the gardeners do not have the legal rights to cultivate, such as abandoned sites, areas that are not being cared for, or private property. It encompasses a diverse range of people and motivations, ranging from gardeners who spill over their legal boundaries to gardeners with a political purpose, who seek to provoke change by using guerrilla gardening as a form of protest or direct action.
However it is never a negative action. It is a distinctly positive action where renewal is key, with the aim of creating a more positive understanding of what Bio-Diversity is and how it is so important in solving our climate issues. By creating and renewal local spaces they become special to the whole community.
Then there are the issues around the concepts of land rights and land reform, where the aim is to create awareness and promote a reconsideration of what land ownership is about. There is also the point that in light of our biodiversity issues, as a result land-owners taday have more responsibility around how they use and protect the land they own.
Guerrilla Gardening & Reclaiming Urban Spaces…
Guerrilla gardening is the act of gardening – raising food, plants, or flowers – on land that the gardeners do not have the legal rights to cultivate, such as abandoned sites, areas that are not being cared for, or private property. It encompasses a diverse range of people and motivations, ranging from gardeners who spill over their legal boundaries to gardeners with a political purpose, who seek to provoke change by using guerrilla gardening as a form of protest or direct action.
However it is never a negative action. It is a distinctly positive action where renewal is key, with the aim of creating a more positive understanding of what Bio-Diversity is and how it is so important in solving our climate issues. By creating and renewal local spaces they become special to the whole community.
Then there are the issues around the concepts of land rights and land reform, where the aim is to create awareness and promote a reconsideration of what land ownership is about. There is also the point that in light of our biodiversity issues, as a result land-owners taday have more responsibility around how they use and protect the land they own.
“Guerrilla gardening, even if it is just sowing something in a tree bed, it might not change the world – you might help some bees, you might bring joy to someone walking down the street – but you’re also reminding people, or awakening something that is like ‘Maybe this is how it should be. ‘
It’s also about making those that own our land take some responsibility for how they treat it.
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