While I was doing a little research, I stumbled upon an interesting article by the Los Angeles Time. This article was on guerrilla gardening and I have never heard of this before. So, what is guerrilla gardening?

Guerrilla gardening is political gardening, a form of non-violent direct action, primarily practiced by environmentalists to reclaim the cities. It is related to land rights, land reform, and permaculture. Activists take over and squat an abandoned piece of land which they do not own to grow crops or plants. Guerrilla gardeners believe in re-considering land ownership in order to reclaim land from perceived neglect or misuse and assign a new purpose to it. To summarize, guerrilla gardening is the act of seeding useful plants in public spaces.

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