July 13, 2016
Ready to drop a seed bomb? We’re talking friendly bombs dropped with love on disused properties, bringing them to life and beautifying these urban eyesores. For those who haven’t heard of them—seed bombs are a bunch of seeds in … Read More...
Category: Green & Sustainable, Greening
Tags: guerrilla gardening, seed bombs
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October 12, 2015
Can you imagine jump starting your morning with a fresh cuppa Joe and a guerrilla gardening seed kit?
For Starbucks, designer Freddie Jordan envisioned the SeedPod, a conceptual guerrilla gardening kit that would promote the coffee chain’s sustainable policy. The … Read More...
Category: Green & Sustainable, Greening, Guerilla Gardening!
Tags: guerrilla gardening, SeedPods, Sustainability Efforts
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December 5, 2013
Luciano Giobbilei project in Barcelona.
Urban gardening is on the increase. And no more so than in Europe, where some remarkable talents are driving many of the world’s urban gardening trends.
Urban Gardens sponsor, Elspeth Briscoe, founder of MyGardenSchool (formerly … Read More...
Category: Birds, Bees, and Butterflies, Garden Design, Green & Sustainable, Green Roofs, Guerilla Gardening!
Tags: gardening books, gardening classes, guerrilla gardening, guerrilla gardens, Lurie Gardens, New York High Line, online gardening courses, Piet Oudolf, trend-setting European urban garden designers, urban gardening, urban gardening trends, urban parks, virtual garden courses, virtual gardening courses
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January 11, 2013
Money may not grow on trees, but you can grow money. They look almost like real pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters…but this money actually grows into something when you spend it.
Seed Money are hand-illustrated and letterpress printed “coins” embedded … Read More...
Category: Edible Landscaping, Green & Sustainable, Greening, Guerilla Gardening!, Herb Gardens, Urban Agriculture
Tags: guerrilla gardening, kickstarter, planted paper, seed money, seed paper, urban gardening
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April 11, 2010
Photo from FastCompany
When she inherited a bunch of vintage candy machines from her dad, recent Otis College of Art and Design grad Kim Karlsrud and classmate Daniel Phillips thought of filling them with candy to try to turn a … Read More...
Category: Green & Sustainable, Greening, Reclaimed & Recycled
Tags: guerrilla gardening, seed bombs, urban gardens
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March 24, 2010
Primroses are literally blooming on the streets of Oxford, England. “If we planted one of those in every hole, it would be like a forest in the road,” says Britain’s self-proclaimed pothole gardener, Pete Dungey. Guerrilla gardening efforts such … Read More...
Category: Experiencing, Green & Sustainable
Tags: green, Guerilla Gardening!, guerrilla gardening, urban gardens
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