Krispy's Blog

The Guardian had afgelopen vrijdag een leuk artikel en twee videos over de Guerilla Gardeners, een clubje groenverspreiders dat sinds kort ook actief is in Nederland.

Een paar citaten:

Guerrilla gardening can, of course, put you in conflict with the landowner and those who are employed to enforce rules. While trespass is only an issue if the land is private, gardening anywhere without permission can be treated as criminal damage. Potentially you are creating obstruction, defacement, pollution and disorder, even though that is not the intention of most guerrilla gardeners.

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I have had several encounters with the authorities. The most frustrating was with a street cleaner in Southwark, over “my” use of “his” rubbish bins. When he saw me putting litter from some nearby flowerbeds into the bins (together with some garden waste) he challenged me: “You’re filling them up too quickly.” I tried to reassure him that in our own way we were doing the same job, but he seemed unsatisfied. The next morning I found the entire contents of one bin emptied over my freshly sown seedbed. The situation was resolved when the local newspaper picked up the story. “Guerrilla gardener goes ape,” screamed the headline. Since then Southwark council seems to have been shamed into accepting my free rubbish collection.