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Gardening Without Boundaries
By Virginia Prescott on Tuesday, August 12, 2008.
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A new era of guerrilla warfare has broken out in cities across the world. Like Che Guevera and Emiliano Zapata, these underdog armies are more strategic than mighty.
They attack mostly at night, hurling seed bombs on empty lots, filling abandoned lots with sunflowers, lavender and potatoes. On the frontlines, soldiers with names like Heather 1985, Niloufer 059, and Rosco 17 are fighting for access to plant on public lands, creating beauty amid ruins, planting food for the hungry, building community spaces on abandoned property.
Richard Reynolds has helped create an international army on the frontlines of urban blight with the motto "let's fight the filth with forks and flowers!" His new book, On Guerrilla Gardening: A Handbook for Gardening Without Boundaries, is both a history of the movement and a manual for future warriors. He joins Word of Mouth to share news from the battlefield in London.
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