Here’s a link to the Florida page at the Guerrilla Gardening community forum.
What is guerrilla gardening, you ask? It’s people turning neglected public spaces into gardens, food or flower. The guerrilla garden site is based in London, but I first heard about it happening in LA (here’s an article in the Sun-Sentinel about LA guerrilla gardeners).
(thanks, JV!)
Great scoping. I’m a big fan of guerilla gardening — I was with a collective that did it during the weeklong protests at the IMF World Bank in 2000. If you thought that was interesting, check out Fallen Fruit, a Los Angeles-based project of artists who advocate “liberating” fruit. As part of their project, they map the fruit (and vegetables) in various neighborhoods that overhang public spaces like sidewalks, streets, parking lots or alleys. (The lawfulness of picking this “public fruit” is up for debate.)
Intrigued by this concept, I set out to map a few St. Pete neighborhoods back in December. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any fruit in public spaces. I could see it — in people’s front yards or hidden in the back — but without setting foot on their property, completely inaccessible.
That’d still be a cool project to start here.
I’ve heard about the fallen fruit project. When I was writing this post I was also thinking about writing a post about “gleaning” (collecting leftover crops) but haven’t gotten around to it yet.
As far as the legality, or illegality, I have a sort of nebulous post in mind right now about “permission culture” and how culture jammer types can resist.