Get Guerrilla Gardening: A Field Guide to Planting in Public Places

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A fun guide to public planting with purpose, encouraging people to make urban communities greener, healthier and happier Discover why it's worth greening your community in this engaging, step-by-step framework on how to guerrilla garden. Guerrilla gardening is the art and science of planting in a public place with purpose. Whether you want to boost biodiversity, grow food, clean the air or empower a community, you can join this new wave of a movement that combines grassroots action with flower power! How do you know which plants are right for the plot, or how to rustle up like-minded locals? Follow Ellen Miles's 7 Ps of guerrilla gardening to find out- purpose, place, plan, people, parts, planting, protect. Sow wildflower seeds in a city tree bed, build a parklet in a parking space or turn an abandoned lot into a community allotment, tackling climate change and social inequality as you go. Full of inspiring photographs, illustrations of DIY projects and a step-by-step framework, this book makes collective action straightforward and fun, giving you the tools to transform lifeless patches of public land into vibrant pockets of plant-life.

Ellen Miles founded the Nature is a Human Right campaign, and authored the DK book Nature is a Human Right. Ellen runs an award-winning social enterprise in Hackney, Dream Green, which equips people to become guerrilla gardeners. Her work has been featured on BBC Earth, Refinery29, EcoResolution, EuroNews, Insider, in Grazia magazine and on the radio station RT 2. As a young, twenty-something female, Ellen represents the next generation of guerrilla gardeners and she is at the forefront of this new wave- her TikTok tutorial on seed bombing kickstarted a trend reported by Vox.