Guerilla Gardening Opportunities - Beautify Toronto and ask no Permissions

Without permit or license, we plant seeds and seedlings in all those neglected corners of public space. Join us as we vandalize the city with nature! 

FIRST PLANTINGS: 

Sunday May 15, 2005!

Bring some seeds and a spoon! Rain or shine!

West Group 

2pm Parkdale Library(outside) 

Annex Group 

2pm Bickford Park 

Downtown Group 

3pm Grange Park (wading pool)

East Group 2pm Location TBA 

Second Planting: 

Sunday may 29 Locations TBA 

Third Planting: 

Sunday June 12 

Locations TBA 

Fourth Planting: 

Sunday June 26 

Locations TBA 

To get involved please contact us! 

general info: gardeners@publicspace.ca 

West Group westgardeners@publicspace.ca 

Annex Group Coordinator: Lindsay annexgardeners@publicspace.ca 

Downtown Group Coordinator: Erin Wood downtowngardeners@publicspace.ca 

East Group eastgardeners@publicspace.ca 

EYE WEEKLY: Vandalizing with nature Night falls on Grange Park on a cool Sunday in late spring and a small band of urban guerrillas embarks on its first operation of the summer. Their mission: to sow the seeds of a green revolution. Their arsenal: trowels and gardening claws, 10 kilograms of compost, wildflower seeds and a tiger lily. 

Primal Seeds "An urban adventure at the threshold of nature and culture, taking back our own time and space, transforming the urban desert, into a provider of food and a space where people meet face to face to discuss and participate directly in the remaking of their own towns and cities." 

Guerilla Gardening by: Mary Henry "What is guerilla gardening? That's my term for my sneak attacks on areas in my neighborhood that are horticultural wastelands." 

You Grow Girl 

Gayla Sanders of Toronto runs a wonderful site for the urban gardener. You Grow Girl's main objective has always been a commitment to producing a site that promotes exploration, excitement and a d.i.y approach to growing plants without the restrictions of traditional ideas about gardening. 

Guerrilla Gardening: Transform our blandscape by sowing the seeds of a green revolution. By Carly Stasko "Our cities are a sad sightburied rivers and dead forests encased in cement straitjackets. More parking lots than parks. Weeds sprayed with chemicals. Trees tangled in Christmas lights and caged behind steel bars. Locally and globally, nature is becoming more controlled and corporatized while public green spaces are shrinking. What can you do? "