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Guerrilla gardening : a manualfesto

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  • Author: Tracey, David
    Contributor: Tracey, David
    Date:
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    2007
    Summary:

    The term "guerrilla" may bring to mind a small band of armed soldiers, moving in the dead of night on a stealth mission. In the case of guerrilla gardening, the soldiers are planters, the weapons are shovels, and the mission is to transform an abandoned lot into a thing of beauty. Once an environmentalist's nonviolent direct action for inner-city renewal, this approach to urban beautification is spreading to all types of people in cities around the world.

    Contents:
    • The big idea (or, What to say if you're stopped)
    • Where to start (You do live here, so why aren't you home by now?)
    • What to use (don't reinvent the wheel, borrow someone's car)
    • Growing basics (the root end goes down)
    • Naturescaping 101 (there's always somebody home in a habitat)
    • Get off the grass (make it a meadow)
    • Grown your own community garden (it takes a village to raise a turnip)
    • When to work within (the art of aikido politics)
    • Start spreading the news (information is just fertilizer with better PR)
    • Where to go from here (make your city the salvation of the world).
    Genre:
    Gardening, Art and architecture
    Subject(s): Community gardens | Design | Garden ecology | Gardens | Landscape gardening | Urban beautification | Urban gardening
    Original Publisher: Gabriola Island, BC, New Society Publishers
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 1550923897, 9781550923896, 9781897408711