UK'S JOHNNY APPLESEED

By JAN GOODEY

Guerilla gardening is not exactly news. In fact it’s been around since someone called Liz Christy turned a derelict lot at Bowery and Houston in NYC into an advert for agrarian living in 1975. She did such a good job that her garden is now protected by the New York City Parks Department. In the grim, gray, cold United Kingdom, guerilla gardening has been on the rise since the 80s and takes place just about anywhere you can scatter a seed, from Parliament Square to outside Harold Shipman’s former slaughter parlor. (And they even turned the idea into a TV show in Australia.) But it’s the people sowing on a daily basis that make the movement to reclaim disused, rotting bits of urban wasteland one you should give a crap about. People a bit like Chris Tomlinson.

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By JAN GOODEY 2 years ago

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