I was looking at this website called Break Open the Bally, which is all about different things you can do around London as alternative venues for fun. There’s part of the website that talks about guerilla gardening, which is basically getting together with people from your neighborhood and taking over the dead overgrown spaces to turn them green again. Here are some pics of urban gardens from the website http://www.guerrillagardening.org/.

I was lucky enough to experience it this weekend, in London. I was walking by on my way somewhere, and I saw loads of young people who looked pretty happy digging up this plot of land that previoiusly had been pretty bad looking– overgrown and dead. There was a sign just outside that said “Support Urban Gardening.” So then, when I walked by the outside gate, there was a really nice little lady and a skinny Indian man who invited me in. They said, “we’re all chipping in to get this garden into shape.”

So, the basic idea is the main girl decided that she needed to do something about it, so she got her friends together and got the local council to help out with supplies annd compost and tools, and then she threw a party to keep it fun and everyone was welcome to come and help out.

There was art for sale, there were bags for sale, there were free refreshments, some guys brought a guitar, and we all went to the pub afterwards. I met some amazing people, one guy works just down the street from me! Now I want to get into it more, maybe get an allotment to grow veggies on and definitely to keep our little urban garden going, and get more people involved.   I’m inspired!!!!