Guerilla Gardening, Richard Reynolds

http://www.guerrillagardening.org
Watch guerilla gardeners transform Elephant & Castle, London.

When Richard Reynolds began planting flowers secretly at night outside his tower block in South London, he had no idea that he was part of a growing global movement committed to combating the forces of neglect, land shortage and apathy towards public spaces. But before long, his blog GuerrillaGardening.org had attracted other guerrillas from around the world to share their experiences of the horticultural frontline, and is now a focal point for guerrilla gardeners everywhere, with over 4,000 people enlisted as recruits.

On Guerrilla Gardening is Reynolds's lively, colourful treatise on why people illicitly cultivate land and how to do it yourself. From discreetly beautifying corners of Montreal to striving for green communal space in Berlin and sustainable food production in San Francisco, from Christmas trees on London roundabouts to the political agitations of landless workers in Brazil, Reynolds charts a battle that people worldwide are fighting on many different fronts. Along the way he unearths the movement's notable historic advances by seventeenth-century English radicals, a nineteenth-century American entrepreneur and public-spirited artists in 1970s New York. Reynolds has researched the subject with guerrilla gardeners from thirty different countries, and compiles their advice on what to grow where, how to cope with adverse environmental conditions, how to seed-bomb effectively, how to harness propaganda to win support and even how to handle anti-terror police.

On Guerrilla Gardening informs, entertains and inspires. Packed with photographs, anecdotes and sound horticultural advice, it is an irresistible invitation to shoulder your shovel and join the revolution that is blooming in the world's shared spaces.

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• Bloombury Publishing
• Richard Reynolds
• Gardening Book
• Gardening
• Urban
• Adventure
• Cityscape
• Police
• Elephant and Castle
• Guerilla
• Undercover
• Transformation
• Environment
• Plants

[grahamjpjones]

What I dont get is that they call it public land, therefore the public own it and you guys are members of the public therfore you should be able to improve the land in question by landscaping it by planting without being subjected to possible arrest. And how can creating a flower bed on a patch of weed ridden ground be criminal damage. The Law is an ass and should be used to catch real criminals and not people like yourselves who are trying to do good. Keep up the good work!!

[jbabin12686]

that is why you never stop planting, also why if more people did it, the police would give up with there stupid shit all together

[imdman9]

Fucking idiots

[omgersk8er]

I've never said this before and I might never say it again, but: "fucking pigs."

[justblirt]

Keep fighting the good fight thanks for the link peace

[24edy]

criminal damage? HA! They should go hunt down criminals and do their job.

[randomlaughingman]

not sure how much this applies here, but wtf i can't believe even this has been taken over by the evil.

people are actually - removing plants. and calling that guerilla gardening.

there's no such thing as weeds, as all real gardeners know. those plants are very important stages in nature reclaiming sites, if they were left then eventually the woodland comes back.

guerilla gardeninh is supposed to be about RE-GREENING NON-GREEN SPACES, not destroying wildlife habitat that reclaimed on its own

[Glomerol]

@grahamjpjones:

It's their law, & as such, is illegitimate

"The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written & natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. It has failed utterly to destroy or even minimize the horrible scourge of its own creation."

- Emma Goldman

[Glomerol]

You are the worst-dressed gardener-- you're not dressed for the job! ;P

Good work nonetheless! :)

[mariusesu]

My advise for GuerillaGardenining Warfare: Lesson No 1: How not to be spotted: Hide. There is no better hiding than behind a uniform. Use safety reflective jacket - try to look like a city/utility worker. If all of you were wearing the same safety jackets, police would not bother to stop: they would THINK you are authorized / sent by the city authorities. Bonus points if you are using safety-helmet : no-one is wearing one if not ordered to ;) Good luck!

[panepanelle123]

criminal damage????????????

[SeoKungFu]

Overgrow the government for a better urban environment !