Background & History of Urban Gardening
From Guerilla Gardening
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Urban Gardening[edit]
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Guerrilla gardening[edit]
- Activists regenerating urban wasteland / neglected areas without permission.
- Promotes aesthetic aims.
- De-toxifies and improves soil.
- Also to grow food and medicinal herbs.
Permaculture (permanent agriculture)[edit]
- Founder Bill Mollison (the first guerrilla gardener, planting oak trees in peoples lawns and on wastelands).
- Practical, multi-scale, sustainable lifestyle & philosophy.
- Conscious design of environment and agriculturally productive systems.
- Integration of landscape and people.
- Working to imitate nature with an evolving system.
- Permaculture can be a guide in having a garden seed rather than fail, through creativity, observation, and resource management.
- Helping the entire community at large.
- Where resources are limited, stretching them is a valuable tool.
- Most gardeners will not have an own yard, but can work in zones (a concept from Permaculture).
Help with typical problems[edit]
- Gardeners often face problems with pests, soil conditions, water, and sunlight.
- Permaculture lends itself to these problems by answering questions that may arise.
- Eschewing the use of chemicals.
- Helping to accomplish one's goal creatively, while doing as little damage to the eco-system as possible.
