‘I Call It Botanarchy’: The Hackney Guerrilla Gardener Bringing Power to the People
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‘I Call It Botanarchy’: The Hackney Guerrilla Gardener Bringing Power to the People
To garden is to make whole again what has been shattered: the relationships in which you are both producer and consumer, in which you reap the bounty of the earth directly, in which you understand fully how something came into being. It may not be significant in scale, but even if it’s a windowsill geranium high above a city street, it can be signi... See more
‘A metred parking spot is an inexpensive short-term lease for a plot of precious urban real estate’ Rebar, the San Francisco–based group who promote the idea, reflected.16 They took the idea to social media and it took off in hundreds of cities around the world, ‘a global experiment in remixing, reclaiming and reprogramming vehicular space for soci
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But surely this is better than suffocating the land with concrete and herbaceous borders? That method tends to be fast and convenient, and may be more accepted by our culture and the gardening industry, but it doesn’t encourage an intimate relationship between you and the land – or any connection at all, for that matter.