{"id":1518,"date":"2009-02-21T10:30:03","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T15:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2010-05-26T21:41:46","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T01:41:46","slug":"how-to-be-a-guerilla-gardeners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/2009\/02\/21\/how-to-be-a-guerilla-gardeners\/","title":{"rendered":"how to be a guerrilla gardener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/L8WTlqiwYdQ&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/L8WTlqiwYdQ&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s been a lot on the internet lately about guerrilla gardeners, people from all walks dedicated to stealthily transforming blighted, barren or plain ugly urban spots into planted oasis&#8217;s.\u00a0 These are often ordinary, middle-class souls fed up with the lack of nature and beauty in their urban landscape, and willing to break the law,\u00a0 shell out money for seeds, plants and supplies from their own pocket, and put themselves on the line (in effect, doing an end-run around bogged-down, bureaucratic local governments).\u00a0<!--more--> Many have simply read or heard about the idea,\u00a0 and took it upon themselves to transform a bit of local wasteland, becoming guerrilla gardeners overnight, a version of &#8220;just do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The unofficial leader of a growing movement in London is Richard Reynolds, a strategic planner for an advertising agency who learned how to garden from his mother and grandmother. In 2004 he transformed the ugly roundabouts in his neighborhood of Elephant and Castle, one of the roughest areas of south London and caught the attention of the media. The local government ended up sanctioning the activity.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to go guerrilla if you are already into gardening and know your way around soil quality and which-plants-do-best-where. If you&#8217;re a novice, you&#8217;ll find resources and inspiring images on at Reynold&#8217;s site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guerrillagardening.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.guerrillagardening.org<\/a>, which connects guerrilla gardeners from over 30 countries; it&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guerrillagardening.org\/ggtips.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tips&#8221; section<\/a>, tells you how to jump start your first guerrilla gardening project.\u00a0 Also check out Reynold&#8217;s book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Guerrilla-Gardening-Handbook-Without-Boundaries\/dp\/1596914491\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1243438015&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">On Guerrilla Gardening<\/a> and\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Guerrilla-Gardening-Manualfesto-David-Tracey\/dp\/0865715831\" target=\"_blank\">Guerrilla Gardening, A Manualfesto<\/a> by David Tracey.<\/p>\n<p>For news about the guerrilla gardening movement in Los Angeles, read this recent L.A.Times recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/features\/home\/la-hm-guerrilla29-2008may29,0,2094982.story\" target=\"_blank\">piece<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a lot on the internet lately about guerrilla gardeners, people from all walks dedicated to stealthily transforming blighted, barren or plain ugly urban spots into planted oasis&#8217;s.\u00a0 These are often ordinary, middle-class souls fed up with the lack of nature and beauty in their urban landscape, and willing to break the law,\u00a0 shell&hellip;<\/p>\n<a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\" https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/2009\/02\/21\/how-to-be-a-guerilla-gardeners\/ \">Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":70961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[206,6549,59,8362],"tags":[265,266],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - 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