Guerrilla gardening is essentially beautifying and/or producing food from places that are neglected. Usually they are city property. An example of guerilla gardening is growing flowers on those strips of grass along sidewalks.

Yesterday I went to a conference called Growing Citizens: Gardening as a catalyst for civic engagement. One of the speakers talked about the Strathcona Community Gardens. The gardens began when people in the poorer part of town asked to start a garden, were refused by the government, and went ahead anyways. After years of making the gardeners fight to keep the gardens, the government now takes credit for their work. But the gardeners don’t really care that much, as long as they have somewhere to grow their food.

Seed bombs are a very easy way of planting something in an inaccessable place or very quickly (like half a second). Imagine you are walking across a street, the little raised grassy thing in the middle is in need of flowers, and what do you do? You reach into your pocket, pull out some little seed bombs and toss ‘em. Then a lasting, ultra- slow motion explosion of flowers takes place. Easy as organic pie.

I have taken on seed-bombing as a project with the CAN club at Tyee. As the project progresses, I will post tips, formulas, and information so you can do it too.