Guerrilla Gardening: A Manualfesto is a how-to guide to urban greening with enough why-for inspiration to get you growing.
Design tips, field notes, plant suggestions, expert interviews, quotable quotes and plenty more.
You can buy it from your friendly neighbourhood book store (or they’ll order it), directly from New Society Publishing, or from the usual on-line sources like amazon.com.
Feel free to read the Introduction.
Or browse the Table of Contents.
The media campaign is turning out to be more fun than I’d expected. After interviewing countless people myself over the years it’s a pleasant switch to be on the other side of the notebook or microphone.
The press has been almost too good. I’ve been waiting for some fundamental buckethead to take on the entire concept, if only to make it a lively debate for the afternoon drive-home show, but so far everyone has been supportive and encouraging.
A few samples from media world.
An interview with CBC Radio One in Montreal. (Sorry – that link didn’t survive a site renovation…I’ll try to find and re-load soon.)
A San Francisco Chronicle article on guerrilla gardening that quotes my definition.
Here’s part 2 of the story.
Guerrilla gardening explained in a mere 400 words at Open Register, a blog for the garden retail industry.
Catalyst Magazine printed some excerpts from a radio interview in Salt Lake City. Not exactly verbatim (it wasn’t my group that farmed the inner city lot mentioned).
A chat on gardening creatively with the enviro-crafters at the Sew Green blog.
The book goes global, in this case, Japan:
