The Age recently had an article on the emerging practice of "guerilla gardening", taking a look at the "Gardening guerillas in our midst". This concept seems to have steadily increased in popularity in recent years (admittedly from a very low base) as the permaculture movement's ideas have been propagated through the community.
Unlike the usual approach taken when trying to grow food in the suburbs - converting spare land on your own property (as discussed by aeldric previously and, more recently, in Jeff Vail's series on A Resilient Suburbia) - guerilla gardening involves cultivating any spare patch of urban land that isn't being used for another purpose, which could provide a substantial addition to the food growing potential of suburbia.
A recent article from Oprah.com, Ellen Ogden of the National Gardening Association, discussed some great ways to be an environmentally conscious gardener.
Because there is a limited amount and type of pesticide or herbicide that can be used on these crops, there must be scrupulous attention paid to the preparation of the soil before the plants are planted.
When there is an aquarium present, anyone usually want a good air mattress pump. It is almost always found powering or perhaps close to the aquarium tank because it works well this way with the garden hose smaller in length.
Compost is a rich, organic fertilizer that takes away our need to use other types of fertilizers on our gardens or plants to make them grow big and prosperous.
At first glance, they look like a couple of giant inflatable garden chairs that have washed out to sea
But they are, apparently, the ultimate solution to rapidly rising sea levels.
This computer-generated image shows two floating cities, each with enough room for 50,000 inhabitants.
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