Numa época em que a selvajaria urbanística e a suja especulação imobiliária tomam conta das cidades, e até mesmo de vastas áreas do território, é sempre bom saber que existem valentes guerrilheiros que lutam não só para defenderem os poucos jardins que ainda subsistem como ainda não se cansam de tentar alargar a área verde dentro das nossas cidades.
Contam-se, efectivamente, já por muitas centenas, os guerrilheiros de jardins que se encontram espalhados pelos quatro cantos do mundo, seguindo uma prática que remonta já a séculos passados.
Clandestinamente, partes inteiras do espaço público são tratadas e cultivadas mediante actos não autorizados.
A guerrilha contra a negligência que afecta os espaços públicos não pára de crescer. Individualmente ou em grupos, os guerrilheiros dos jardins fazem as suas surtidas pela calada da noite a fim de salvaguardar o espaço público que tão maltratado é por quem deveria ser o seu garante.
A melhor maneira de reconhecermos todo esse esforço destes guerrilheiros é juntarmo-nos a eles.
Entretanto deixamos aqui alguns conselhos para quem estiver interessado na prática destes actos de guerrilha: ver aqui
Existe, como é óbvio, uma extensa comunidade de guerrilheiros de jardins espalhados pelos quatro continentes. Alguns exemplos de referências e colectivos que praticam este tipo de guerrilha de jardins:
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In 1977, when a group of 48th Street New Yorkers noticed tomato plants growing out of the debris from the empty lot that had laid vacant and abandoned for over 28 years, the idea of a real garden began to germinate. With additional encouragement from city sanitation workers, in 1978 the Clinton Community Garden was born.
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Julia (013) has launched Grune Welle a new guerrilla gardening website in both German and English... and soon to be in Spanish too. Gruene Welle
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Even though land owners sometimes give you permission to garden... they also sometimes change their mind. Watch short films about battles to save New York City community gardens at Interactivist's website.Interactivist
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You have heard of Seed Bombs. Well here's a Seed Gun. Swords Into Plowshares have made these from red clay powder, compost and a mixture of seeds.Swords Into Plowshares
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The term Guerrilla Gardening was coined by the Green Guerillas* over thirty years ago. These days they have grown into an organised movement to encourage the participation of the public in cultivating their city in less undercover ways. (*Yes, they choose to spell Guerrilla with one R).Green Guerrillas
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Fallen Fruit not only make the most of the urban landscape by planting it with productive fruit trees, but they also harvest fruit that grows in public space... guerilla farming that is.Fallen Fruit
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A UK website campaigning for public ownership of the Kingdom.This Land Is Ours
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Bittermelon.org celebrate the Bitter Melon. Not just by eating lots of them, but also by scattering seeds. They had a seed bombing event last year, scattering seeds on "bitter ground" in Boston. Bitter Melon Seed Bombing
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Sean (2350) is a blind guerrilla gardener. He has been digging up paving stones in his streeand planting there for four years. His displays are so impressive people take diversions to walk down his "24 Hour Drive Through Garden". And now the council even lift up paving stones on Sean's recommendation, so he can cultivate more of the concrete into greenery.Watch a video of Sean
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An article from Do or Die on the May Day 2000 protests, including a good analysis of why jumping on the Guerrilla Gardening band wagon was flawed. "The essential point about guerrilla gardening is that it is done by individuals or small groups in a very low-key way; it might not work exactly the same if 5,000 drunk people all descended on the same area and tried to do it all at once." Do or Die
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Emmanuel and his team of Verdir guerrilla and community gardeners are up to all sorts of stuff (that I can't translate) in ParisVerdir
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Primal Seeds is a fairly radical and ambitious organisation, who talk of industrial biopiracy alongside Guerrilla Gardening. Frankly they scare me a bit, but you might be interested. They describe themselves as "existing as a network to actively engage in protecting biodiversity and creating local food security. This evolving tool is designed to empower individuals to participate in the creation of tomorrow." Primal Seeds
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Making use of waste space in Dublin, this group are using it to grow vegetables. Their vision is of a social space for engaging the local community and part of an unbroken greenway through the urban fabric of Dublin City.Dolphins Barn Gaarden
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Working in partnership with neighborhood residents, community organizations and city agencies, PHS uses greening as a community building tool. It educates and empowers people to make the city a more attractive and livable place through horticulture.Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
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Kuro5hin.org is a fascinating place, summed up as technology and culture from the trenches.
They describe their site as "a place for people who like to think, for people who want to discuss the world they live in. It's a site for people who are on the ground in the modern world, and who sometimes look around and wonder what they have wrought". Included within their reams of curious articles is an excellent explanation of Guerrilla Gardening and how best to go about it.Kuro5hin
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Toronto sounds like a pretty cool place. Eye Weekly is a listings page for the city, and they have a tale of Guerrilla Gardening.Eye Weekly
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Not so much gardening, but this artist is guerrilla cleaning the streets with clean grafitti in Sao Paulo.Alexandre Orion
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Rosa Rose garden is one of several guerrilla gardens in Berlin. It is substantial enough, both in scale and local support, to have become a true community garden where people not only dig away but also enjoy BBQs and film nights. It's early days but this garden is very much like the guerrilla gardens of New York which have grown up since the 1970s to become multi-purpose community gardens.Rosa Rose
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In 1906 Lewis H. Berens wrote a detailed account of the first recorded act of guerrilla gardening, that of Gerrard Winstanley and The Diggers on 1 April 1649. You can read this huge book online at The Project Gutenberg..The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth
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Food Not Bombs are all about making great use of the land so that no one needs to go short of food. They have posted a long, well meaning (and almost illegible) article on Guerrilla Gardening.Food Not Bombs
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Heather treasures all plants that have fallen upon hard times by finding them a new home. That does not just include Wayward Plants like seedlings but even weeds uprooted from pathways.Wayward Plants
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Public Space are up to all sorts of cheerful stuff in Toronto. For them Guerrilla Gardening is "graffiti with nature". As well as digging in bulbs they optimistically plant sign posts encouraging passers by to keep the ground watered. Don't they look like an adorable bunch of people. I must pay them a visit.Public Space
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This army actually wears camoflage. They aren't guerrillas but they are transforming inner city America. And after a day sprucing up their city the Rock Corp get given tickets to exclusive hip hop gigs.Rock Corps
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Throughout history those caught up in conflict have turned to gardening. This report from NPR tells more.Defiant Gardens
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Making a big gesture about reclaiming car parking space for relaxation and gardens are the widely publicised REBAR. It looks great, but this is more about kidnapping public space rather than caring for the orphaned land most guerrilla gardeners care about.http://www.blogger.com/
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Word Spy write the brief history of Guerrilla Gardening, attributing the first activity to groundless gypsies who planted potatoes by the road side, and more recently to the Green Guerrillas of 1970s New York who used seed grenades.Word Spy
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