Community Guerrilla Gardening Transforms Urban Concrete Space
Saturday, November 29th, 2008 at 6:06:23 PM · 2008/guerilla_gardening/guerilla_gardening
A smiling woman named Penelope crouches in a newly planted urban garden bed, wearing a pink long-sleeve shirt and jeans with gardening gloves, looking up cheerfully at the camera. She and other volunteers are actively placing rocks and planting succulents and other drought-tolerant plants in a circular garden bed bordered by brick edging. The setting appears to be an urban lot or sidewalk median in a city environment, surrounded by chain-link fencing with green windscreen fabric, and what appears to be a vacant lot or construction site in the background. The mood is energetic and optimistic, capturing grassroots community activism through guerrilla gardening. Scattered around the work area are water bottles, plant containers, garden tools, and stones being arranged decoratively around the new plantings.
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