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Currently, I am hugely interested in and focusing on studying about productive landscapes in urban areas. Along with this interest, I have become aware that there are many people doing fascinating activities for making cities greener. The one of movement is 'Guerrilla Gardening'. Although the popularity of urban food growing is hugely increasing in recent years, there are still many people unable to have their own land.
Guerrilla gardening could be the best option for this people or those who want to make some under-used public spaces valuable. Guerrilla gardening is generally practiced by environmentalists for the purpose of political gardening. They plant vegetables, fruit, and herbs in vacant or abandoned areas of land such as the side of highways, between streets or parking lots and it is not always legal.
There are plenty of different ways to guerilla garden. Some guerrilla gardeners work in secret at night to plant food. Some work more openly together and ask local communities to help them, or just throw little balls of seeds anywhere that plants could potentially grow.
The fundamental objectives of guerrilla gardening are to improve public spaces, rescue lands from misuse or being wasted, and give them a new purpose.
Currently, I am hugely interested in and focusing on studying about productive landscapes in urban areas. Along with this interest, I have become aware that there are many people doing fascinating activities for making cities greener. The one of movement is 'Guerrilla Gardening'. Although the popularity of urban food growing is hugely increasing in recent years, there are still many people unable to have their own land.
Guerrilla gardening could be the best option for this people or those who want to make some under-used public spaces valuable. Guerrilla gardening is generally practiced by environmentalists for the purpose of political gardening. They plant vegetables, fruit, and herbs in vacant or abandoned areas of land such as the side of highways, between streets or parking lots and it is not always legal.
There are plenty of different ways to guerilla garden. Some guerrilla gardeners work in secret at night to plant food. Some work more openly together and ask local communities to help them, or just throw little balls of seeds anywhere that plants could potentially grow.
The fundamental objectives of guerrilla gardening are to improve public spaces, rescue lands from misuse or being wasted, and give them a new purpose.
This image is taken from: http://sparklemag.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/guerrilla-gardening/
May this video will help to understand how people do guerrilla gardening :
This video is taken from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66jWn8dgUm4&feature=related
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