So fun to see this article at MatadorChange about how guerrilla gardeners known as “Trowels on the Prowl” have taken on parts of Chicago and Evanston.
One of the really neat community consequences of guerrilla gardening is that a more beautified community feeds on the positive energy.
But there are downsides…like that the guerrilla gardeners don’t actually have a right to garden (nor do they have permission to garden) their targets. Hence the battle up in Evanston, where the owners of an empty lot and gardeners are at odds over whether to allow the GG’s “seed bombs” to result in prairie flowers or just mow it down so it doesn’t look unkempt.
See Chicago Trib article, “Evanston ‘guerrilla gardeners’ want t know who cut their wildflowers.”
At this point, it seems to me that there will be no winners here until there’s some face-to-face discussion.
See photographic evidence of the first action by Trowels on the Prowl, about this time last year, memorialized in a Flickr slideshow. Click the image to view.
Straw hat tip to @Richard_001.
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