Guerrilla gardening
By | Jun 9, 2008
Monday morning, and I needed an article to put a grin on my face!
Check out this inspiring article about the worldwide movement seeking to reclaim wasted land and brighten up dull corners of our urban spaces. Not only is it a chance to beautify our often depressingly grey spaces, but you can grow food in random places too. Not a bad idea considering food prices at the moment, which are unlikely to fall considering peak oil and increasing demand are kind of long-term factors.
Imagine if urban centres and suburban areas were edible landscapes, pumpkins growing on vacant lots, fruit trees lining roads, beans growing up fences!
I live right next to an urban motorway and on a pretty pavement-pounded pedestrian route and was thinking the other day how awesome it would be to put in fruit trees so that once they were established, not only would our huge household have ample seasonal fruit supplies, but passers-by could just pluck off some on their way past. Apples, pears, feijoas…
The only thing I’m not sure about is whether the fumes from the motorway would contaminate the fruit? Can anyone give me any clues on this?
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manucaddie
August 3rd, 2008 at 1:41 pm
As long as there is plenty of carbon in the fumes photosynthesis should do its job and the fruit would be fine.
10 years my friend and I did this in Tauranga – on a bank created by the then new Waikareao Expressway at the intersection of 11th Ave and Waihi Rd we dug rows in the soil that spelled “FIGHT POVERTY” and planted vegetable seeds in the rows.