Guerrilla gardeningReader submitted

Richard Reynolds, a British advocate of guerrilla gardening, spoke to local businesses and residents at  BizDojo, Co Space on 155 Karangahape Road, Auckland last year.

Reynolds is the founder of http://www.guerrillagardening.org/ and began guerrilla gardening 10 years ago in his Elephant & Castle neighbourhood in London. He has since created gardens throughout this area in London as well as in Beirut, Prague, Moscow and parts of Africa. He is the author of On Guerrilla Gardening, which traces the history of guerrilla gardening along with details on how to do it.

Guerrilla gardening is about gardening in public places where neglected, orphaned land is under-utilised, overgrown or just left to decay. The guerilla approach is to garden without asking, however Reynolds insists this is “pragmatically appropriate albeit gently provocative”.

Reynolds discussed the history of the movement, his examples of guerrilla gardens around the World, his learnings being involved in the movement, and other projects such as http://www.pimpyourpavement.com/, applications to a Pacific context, and future thoughts on where the movement is heading.