Fight the Green Fight
June 30, 2008
No doubt you’ve heard about guerrilla warfare, or guerrilla marketing, but guerrilla gardening? Yes, there is such a thing! What started as one man’s gardening efforts has evolved into an elaborate website and community: Guerilla Gardening.org. As the site so dramatically describes, “There is neglected orphaned land all over the place. Pockets of resistance have broken out in some areas as guerrilla gardeners fight back to reclaim this precious resource and cultivate it”. Basically, these “troops” meet at night and cultivate unused parts of cities to make them “a bit more colorful” or even “live off vegetables grown illicitly in road side verges”. Pretty crazy environmental trend, huh? Maybe one day teenagers will be sneaking out at night to work on their gardens! However, if you prefer to spend your night hours asleep (or are reluctant to eat vegetables grown in highway ditches…) you could always make a donation. Another environmentally friendly promotion along the same lines is Green Graffiti; Brooklyn artist Edina Tokodi is rapidly rising to fame for her wonderful moss creations, featured below. 
