Today, I’ve been researching guerilla gardening online to get a few ideas that might translate into our own garden or community. We have a community garden within a few minutes’ drive (Fine! Or 20 minutes on bike!) that we were lucky enough to visit on a field trip when Nicholas was in Kindergarten Glenn came home a few weeks ago all enthused about it, having discovered it while doing some photography. I think he was a little deflated when I told him we already knew about it. It’s a particularly awesome one and is the first thing that pops into my mind when I hear the term “guerilla gardening”.
I also looked into the proposed conversion of a local bridge to a park, but that idea seemed to fizzle before it even started and is, as far as I know, off the table. That was a little sad as I was ready to hop all over that bandwagon. Last year, I caught a glimpse of the High Line in NYC and was well and truly impressed. This was immediately after reading the initial proposal for our local bridge and I was pretty excited at the thought. Oh well…
I also came across countless tutorials on making your own seedbombs, which apparently have been around since the ’70′s. Who knew? You can easily google it and find your own. The most organized (aka commercial) of the sites I visited was Greenaid. They sell pre-made seedbombs out of converted candy machines. Pretty cool actually. See…
So, whatever your level of interest – fun-loving (imagine shooting those babies with a slingshot), get-your-hands-dirty, political e-mail mover & shaker – there exists an environmental niche for you. You just have to do the tiniest bit of investigation. Until next time, I will leave you with a little inspiration. Take care… Sarah. xoxo
We lived in a small community in the heart of downtown Denver for a while (ok, to be honest.. we lived in the ghetto, but still…) and they had a community garden. We passed by it one day and I was so excited. I was going to set up a plot and garden and it was going to be so wonderful… but it was unorganized and badly run and the lady who was in charge didn’t give a crap about the garden, yet she didn’t want to give up control to anyone else either… I gave up on that dream. Now, in our new house here in Northern Colorado, we have tons of garden space. I’m excited again and we’ve been weeding sections and making plans, but it’s all so overwhelming. I can’t seem to keep up with it all and work full time on top of it… so I abandoned the back yard spaces and am concentrating on the front of the house… it’s small, there’s already several different plants growing there, and I feel maybe I can stay on top of that at least.
I have never heard of seed bombs, but I am all over it now! Thanks for the info and the inspiration!!!