#guerrila gardening

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I’ve had the pleasure of eating homemade strawberry shortcake (the original that is a sweet shortbread or biscuit/scone) with tiny wild strawberries. It’s almost unreal how they were sweet, tart, incredibly fragrant and just screaming “STRAWBERRY” in my mouth. The ones at the store? You can put your nose right on the container and still not smell them. You should be able to easily smell them from three feet away.

Same with blueberries. Tiny wild ones burst in your mouth with the sweet-tart essence of blueberry. Store bought are huge, pretty, and flavorless mush.

I watch Mark Wiens, Phil Rosenthal on Feed Phil, Street Food (insert region here), Salt Fat Acid Heat, and pretty much any halfway decent food show. It’s always amazing to me how so called “third world”, “undeveloped” nations can have markets with dozens of types of local fruit and veggies picked that morning - or the day before at the oldest - seafood less than six hours out of the water, meat butchered just a few hours previously.

It’s just so insane how so many of us, especially in “developed” nations like the U.S., think our system for producing, transporting, and selling food is somehow superior.

Learning about edible plants (and eating them) has given me a lot of insight into the problems with the USAmerican food system

It's incredible how a supermarket gives you the sense of being surrounded by immense variety, but it's just the visual noise of advertising. In reality almost everything around you is just corn, wheat, soy, and milk, repackaged and recombined and concealed and re-flavored using additives, over and over and over again.

[evilautisticsociety]

Making a master list for all the great Hopepunk Solarpunk posts ive seen (IT UPDATES!!)

you don’t have to read all of this! you can scroll and find ones that interest you, id bold the ones that i want you to see but then all the links would be bold lmao

giving this to my future self

recipes under 45 minutes, 5 or less ingredients

What is conformity?

What is Solarpunk? (reddit masterpost)

Hattie Carthan- A 60 year old black women who paved the way (website)

Rules of Guerrilla Gardening (youtube)

When to do Guerrilla Gardening (and when not to

Easy way to do Guerrila Gardening (no seed bombs needed) (youtube)

Hope is not mindless optimism

Solar punks are against a shitty future

Deeeefinitely don’t look at the native plants and plant them alongside sidewalks to make the world greener and prettier

How to really make a difference

It is the cohabitation that makes all things beautiful.

Buy Nothing group; becoming a community

Fixing clothes- how to do it

Know your local communities

What if we stop an apocalypse?

Individual action into collective action

Wallgardens- More accessible and less space needed

Gardening for a climate resistance

Social Ecology

Actual solarpunk vs misconception

How to help with little energy/effort

An actual ecovillage!!

Attracting native birds

Amazing Ecovillage (tiktok vid)

Reconstructed Railway Bridge (tiktok vid)

What is Solarpunk? (youtube(

How can we make Solarpunk a reality? (youtube)

A cool guerrilla gardening group (youtube)

How radical gardeners took back centeral city (yourube)

Trees bring rain

Minimalism vs Solarpunk

The first guerrilla gardener (website)

More about Hattie Carthan (website)

Project of homes for homeless

Recommended youruber for Solarpunk

The problem with individualism

California has passed a food law! (Website)

How to be a Druid

How to make Biomass sustainable again

Indigenous Climate Plan!!! (Website)

What is Solarpunk? (website)

Permaculture

Conventional vs Unconventional Permaculture

Independent Gardening is NOT Inaccessible!

Role of Poor Soil

Example of a Guerilla Gardening Community

Seed Companies

How to Start a Garden (for FREE!!)

Affective Mousetrap (no rat poison needed)

How to get started with a new climate project (Instagram)

A district in Japan which works together with fish

How to start medicinal garden

Solar panels work

Ideas to improve bus stop

Kinetic energy power sources

Solar farms

Solarpunk Poetry

Food map :0 (where wild fruit/owned fruit trees are)

How to choose hope

How to turn your neighbourhood into a village

Creating a liberating society this sets off my warning sirens but idk look into it

Creating a Solarpunk city

Ableism, Cottagecire, and Solarpunk

Increasing soil capacity for water

Sourdough Recipe :3

Anarchists Calisthetics (anarcht every day!)

Guerilla gardening tutorial

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any tips on how to guerrilla garden at my university, which is just full of fucking ugly ass fields of grass? esp with allergy-friendly plants

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OOOOOOAKLAAAAAND

Maybe it’s just the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, but lately I’ve seen a lot of people talk about “illegally” planting crops and trees in their community.

If this interests you, I encourage you to check out Tony Santoro of Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t. He has a YouTube channel that’s dedicated to lots of cool botany topics, but this particular video is about his efforts planting trees in his area. I think it’s pretty informative for anyone who may want to work towards improving their local green spaces.

He’s cool! And fun to listen to! 

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‘Free Write’:  Eco-Friendly Graffiti

As I have been exploring and learning about graffiti throughout this semester, I have begun to recognize it everywhere and find it hard not to notice it. As we know, graffiti comes in many different forms, from tagging, to decorative sculptures, to murals. Though forms of graffiti may greatly differ from one another, they all have one thing in common. Graffiti is expressive.

Expressiveness is what every artist and designer strive to accomplish, with the goal of inspiring others with their original works. As a landscape architecture student, I took this course hoping to discover ways to tie the use of informal art into landscape/urban design. I think that a great example of this potential is found in the works of artist Anna Garforth of the UK, who specializes in what she calls "Moss Graffiti". Talk about original!

Using an earthy element like moss and using it to express a message or a mural definitely catches the eyes of onlookers! Garforth uses moss to create anything from small-scale typography on brick walls to massive geometric designs and patterns with this living material. Below are examples of Garforth's work in Moss Graffiti.

This work is also called "Green Graffiti" or "Eco-Graffiti" and has clear environmental benefits. Using living moss as a palette eliminates the use of spray paint, paint markers or any other paints with toxic chemicals. Moss Graffiti is eco-friendly and can easily be taken off by spraying natural lime juice onto the design, which reportedly kills moss spores. Also, using moss as a form of public art may help with air pollution. Moss absorbs the "fine particulate matter of air pollution", reducing the Urban Heat Island effect (when urban areas are hotter than surrounding rural areas).

In addition, using Moss Graffiti on urban brick and concrete walls (the ideal canvas for graffiti artists) may stop unwanted tagging, as moss art is simply too beautiful to distort. Below are some other examples of Moss Graffiti designs from all over the world.

Locally, Julie Forand, former graduate of OCAD University in Toronto was the founder of "Sprout Guerrila", selling Moss Graffiti kits to encourage people to create art out of moss. She hoped that her product will influence the public to refrain from the toxic paints and chemicals and to bring a new form of graffiti to Toronto in her “I heart my city” campaign. Her kits are $24 each and provide thorough, simple instructions on how to make moss, how to maintain it, and also information on the best places for its growth. Forand says that she doesn't  want to "encourage illegal activity, but street art is amazing, and why not get people involved in making a statement and greening the city".

With this new-found environmental and eco-friendly form of art, graffiti just got a whole lot Greener.

Sources:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/home-and-garden/gardening/graffiti-in-canada-is-alive-and-well-and-we-do-mean-alive/article14629494/

https://www.permaculture.co.uk/readers-solutions/how-grow-your-own-moss-graffiti

https://www.stencilrevolution.com/blogs/tutorials/moss-graffiti

https://laud8.wordpress.com/2010/12/10/moss-graffiti-art/

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G1 Supercard - 4/6/2019; Wrestling Dontaku Tour: Featured Matches, Tanahashi & Tenzan Injured; Nagata/Kojima in Crockett Cup; This Week’s NJPW on AXS

Yes, hi, hello. It’s been a bit. After two twelve-hour drives, five wrestling shows (which is apparently NOT ENOUGH judging by how many shows some people attended, or WORKED, during Mania Weekend), and a brush with death (I’ll explain next time I record), I needed to recover a bit. I’m still kinda half-assing it now, since I won’t be going through the full lineups for Wrestling Dontaku in this post. But youse all can forgive me, right? Anyway, let’s start with the whole reason I went to NYC...

(And hey, you can also listen to me do a podblast on Pro Wrestling Only about the event!)

ROH/NJPW G1 Supercard - 4/6/2019, Madison Square Garden, NYC (NJPWWorld / PPV)

Honor Rumble: Kenny King d. Jushin Thunder Liger, Great Muta [Wrestle-1], TK O’Ryan, Vinny Marseglia, Tomohiro Ishii [CHAOS], King Haku [Bullet Club], Cheeseburger, Minoru Suzuki [SZKG], Hirooki Goto [CHAOS], Jonathan Gresham, Toru Yano [CHAOS], Colt Cabana, Delirious, Bad Luck Fale [Bullet Club], YOSHI-HASHI [CHAOS], Rocky Romero [CHAOS], PJ Black, Tracy Williams [Lifeblood], Brian Milonas, Chase Owens [Bullet Club], Will Ferrara, Ryusuke Taguchi, Shingo Takagi [Los Ingobernables], Rhett Titus, SHO [CHAOS], YOH [CHAOS], Shaheem Ali, LSG, BUSHI [Los Ingobernables], Beer City Brusier (42;21, OTTR)

NEVER Openweight Championship & ROH World Television Championship Title v. Title: Jeff Cobb [FREE] © d. Will Ospreay [CHAOS] © (Tour Of The Islands, 12:52) - Ospreay fails his 2nd defense - Cobb succeeds his 6th defense, and is the 24th NEVER Openweight Champion

Rush [Los Ingobernables] d. Dalton Castle (Skewer Dropkick, 0:15)

Women of Honor World Championship: Kelly Klein d. Mayu Iwatani [STARDOM] © (K Power, 10:38) - Iwatani fails her 3rd defense - Klein is the 4th champion

NYC Street Fight Open Challenge: Juice Robinson [Lifeblood], Flip Gordon & Mark Haskins [Lifeblood] d. Bully Ray, Silas Young & Shane Taylor (Gordon > Bully, Four Flippy Splash, 15:01)

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship 3-Way Match: Dragon Lee [CMLL] d. Taiji Ishimori [Bullet Club] © & Bandido [Lifeblood] (Lee > Bandido, Desnucadora, 8:54) - Ishimori fails his 3rd defense - Dragon Lee is the 84th champion

IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team v. ROH World Tag Team Championships Title v. Title 4-Way Match: Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa [Bullet Club] © d. PCO & Brody King [Villain Enterprises] ©, EVIL & SANADA [Los Ingobernables] and Jay & Mark Briscoe (Loa > King, Super Powerbomb, 9:54) - Guerillas of Destiny succeed their 1st defense - PCO/King fail their first defense; Guerrilas of Destiny are the 54th ROH World Tag Team champions

RevPro Undisputed British Heavyweight Championship: Zack Sabre Jr. [SZKG] © d. Hiroshi Tanahashi (Jim Breaks Armbar, 15:14) - Sabre succeeds his ? defense

IWGP Intercontinental Championship: Kota Ibushi d. Tetsuya Naito [Los Ingobernables] © (Kamigoye, 20:53) - Naito fails his 2nd defense - Ibushi is the 21st champion

ROH World Championship 3-Way Ladder Match: Matt Taven d. Jay Lethal © & Marty Scurll [Villain Enterprises] (29:35) - Lethal fails his 13th defense - Taven is the 21st champion

IWGP Heavyweight Championship: Kazuchika Okada [CHAOS] d. Jay White [Bullet Club] © (Rainmaker, 32:33) - White fails his 1st defense - Okada is the 69th champion

Hoo wee, a lot to unpack here. This actually ran longer than Wrestle Kingdom 13. And it did feel every bit of that towards the end, sitting in MSG, I have to say. But this was a great show, and for being the last show I saw this weekend, it was a great way to end my Mania Weekend.

Which isn’t to say there are some major questions here. Like, was this the right move to take titles off White and Naito? Both are VERY over in their respective roles, Naito the only NJPW wrestler to get pre-match chants, White clearly the most hated heel in NJPW, both in Japan AND America. While Ibushi in his first championship as a contracted wrestler offers fresh title matches, Okada retaking the belt does not. And they were in the midst of an angle whereby Naito wanted to win the IWGP Heavyweight title while still IC champion. So that was... a waste of time and energy? Neither of which says the matches were not good, because both of them were. Just not sure of the results.

Tanahashi got injured, maybe by that Jim Breaks Armbar? So he is out of the next tour. So is Hiroyoshi Tenzan, which, not sure how he got injured considering he didn’t work this show. Maybe it happened during the New Japan Cup tour, or whilst in training. 

The Guerrillas of Destiny are now double-champions, however their belts were stolen by Toru Yano at the conclusion of the match. Not that anyone in MSG actually noticed, because everyone’s attention was on the (what we now know to be worked) crowd invasion by fucking Enzo & Cass. I really don’t want to spend too much time on those two scumfucks. MSG let their feelings known in no uncertain terms, however. As did many of the wrestlers, like, true to form, Tama Tonga. This was a recurring theme, of Ring Of Honor really not reading the room, and having such shitty booking decisions. The Women of Honor match was patently Not Good, and a waste of Mayu Iwatani’s talents; this goes double for the Beautiful People appearing at the end, to absolute crickets in MSG. Kenny King robbing both Jushin Thunder Liger and the absolute surprise entrant THE GREAT MUTA (yes, I absolutely did lose my shit seeing him at this show, why do you ask?) of an MSG moment (Muta did spit red mist in King’s face tho). A streetfight clusterfuck that became a 6-man match to put over Herb Gordon. The way too long ladder match. ROH stinks, folks. Stop watching them. They are awful. The only thing  on their end that was remotely good was Rush destroying Dalton Castle, but Dalton is either turning heel or leaving the company, following his attacks on The Boys. But yeah, this show made it crystal clear that NJPW are way better off without fucking around with Sinclair Broadcasting Group, especially if they are going to hire scumbags like Enzo Amore.

Dragon Lee finally wins the IWGP Junior Heavyweight title! That was a bit of a shocker. So was Ospreay ending his Giant Killer push by losing the NEVER title to a much deserving Jeff Cobb. Real happy he finally has an NJPW title.

Long story short, I really did enjoy this show, but mostly by ignoring the ROH content. I also had a wonderful weekend, where I met quite a lot of people, both regular folk and wrestlers (ZSJ! Shibata! Chinsuke Nakamura! Jiro “Ikemen” Kuroshio!), saw friends and co-hosts, ate some great food, and saw some awesome wrestling. Including the RevPro show on Friday, which had a lot of NJPW guys, but I don’t have the energy to go over that now. And what’s passed, is past. Time to look into the future yo...

This Saturday (my 46th birthday!), we begin the cycle of shows leading in to Wrestling Dontaku, which will be a 2-day event once again. I don’t have the energy to enter in the full tour cards right now. I will get to that tomorrow/Friday when I do a new Upcoming Events post. But I can go over some of the feature matches...

On 4/20, we will have Sengoku Lord in Nagoya, at Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium. Two title defenses on this show, as Kota Ibushi will make his first defense of the IWGP Intercontinental title against Zack Sabre Jr., who of course beat Ibushi during the New Japan Cup. Also on this show, Juice Robinson will defend the IWGP US belt against Bad Luck Fale.

Another title match takes place on 4/29, at the annual Wrestling Hi no Kuni  event in Kumamoto. Here, GOD will defend the IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team straps against the Most Violent Players, Togi Makabe & Toru Yano. The main event of this show is a special singles match between Hirooki Goto v. Jay White. Not sure why, but here we are. There will also be a special singles, non-title match (if Juice retains on 4/20) between Juice v. Chase Owens.

The first day of Wrestling Dontaku, on 5/3 in Fukuoka, has the first time the IWGP Junior Heavyweight title is a main event match for a megashow in... a long time. (Someone tweeted when the last time was, and I didn’t save it, and I can’t fathom looking right now.) Dragon Lee makes his 1st defense against the previous champion, Taiji Ishimori. That ought to be good. Also, Jeff Cobb makes his first defense of the NEVER Openweight title against Suzuki-gun’s Taichi. And only that belt.

The following day, on 5/4, sees Kazuchika Okada make his first defense of the IWGP Heavyweight title against LIJ’s SANADA. Those three have had great matches before, including the recent New Japan Cup Final. They are also advertising a special singles match between Tomohiro Ishii v. EVIL, as well as a tag match that sees Dragon Lee & Will Ospreay team v. Taiji Ishimori & an X wrestler. Not sure why they are going the X route when we all know it’s El Phantasmo. 

As I said above, I will list all cards tomorrow or Friday in an Upcoming Events post.

Meanwhile, the brackets have been announced for the 2019 Crockett Cup tag team tournament, taking place on 4/27/2019 at Cabarrus Arena in Concord, NC. NJPW will be sending over the team of Yuji Nagata & Satoshi Kojima to this event; one assumed it would have been TenKoji were Tenzan not injured. They will face the recently dethroned ROH World Tag Team champions PCO & Brody King in their matchup. Should Nagata/Kojima win, they will face the winners of The Briscoe Brothers v. The Rock’n’Roll Express. Yes, you read that right. Over in the other block, an ROH team of Herb Gordon & Bandido (poor Bandido) goes up against a CMLL tandem of Stuka Jr. & Guerrero Maya Jr., whilst the War Kings (Jax Dane & Crimson) face off against the winner of a Wild Card Battle Royale that will take place during this show. This event will also have an NWA World’s Heavyweight title defense by Nick Aldis v. Marty Scurll. 

Finally, NJPW on AXS has a 2-hour special this week, with matches from G1 Supercard just last weekend. The advertised matches are the IWGP Heavyweight and Intercontinental matches. You can scroll above to see who is in those. Show starts at 8pm EDT / 7pm CDT.

And that’s it. I’m still recovering, so off to bed with this old man. Tour starts Saturday. Happy to be back. Hope you enjoyed the G1 Supercard, and anything else you watched during Mania Weekend. Come back for the Road to Wrestling Dontaku!

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guerrila gardening 

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At Prague’s Signal Festival 2018, a Historic City Is Seen in Modern Light

Earlier this month we traveled to Signal Festival, the largest cultural event in the Czech Republic, and it’s not just light art enthusiasts that flock to Prague for this once-a-year event, now in its 6th edition. Signal Festival is to the Czech Republic what Carnival is to Brazil: it’s a way (albeit nascent for now) for a small nation to come together to observe, appreciate and play in the capital city’s streets and urban spaces.

Photo by Dusan Vondra

This year’s festival took place along three routes: Centrum (the historic city centre), Vinohrady and Karlin. For four evenings, historic sites, palaces and national libraries were transformed by light into modern design installations. For a first time visitor such as myself, it was a rather practical and ideal way to experience a new city and the secret places it holds. Without any notion of where to go and what to look out for, the festival guided me to important landmarks in the evening to see how young artists build upon the work of older architects. Some of these buildings I visited again the next day, to appreciate them in daylight and to observe their original use. At both the historic designs of Prague and the contemporary art projected onto this canvas, I stood to marvel.

Here are some ways that light and art transformed cultural places in Prague over the course of four evenings.

Photo by Filip Obr

Photo by Alexander Dobrovodsky

Bar/ák is a cultural centre in Prague, known among local residents for its calm courtyard, outdoor seating, great beers and variety of evening programs from live music to screenings. During the festival, a group of artists and programmers at 3dsense — known for their expertise with 3d sensors — used synchronized projections and videomapping to create an otherworldly atmosphere of a black hole in the courtyard.

Photo by Dusan Vondra

Kasárna Karlí was once an abandoned army barrack, although it is hard to tell. It is now a multipurpose cultural space in Prague with a beautiful and large open garden, an outdoor cinema, bar and cafe space, a sculpture garden as well as contemporary art gallery called Karlin Studios. Here you’ll also find Prastánek, a drink stand that has found a home inside a 300 year old oak tree thanks to Czech artist Frantíšek Skála. For Signal, Hotaru Visual Guerrila created a 3d interpretation called “Biofilm” in the courtyard of Kasárna Karlí to explore how microorganisms can possibly create and maintain building materials in the future.

Photo by Alexander Dobrovodsky

At Karlínské Square, bordered by apartment houses and a church, Romain Tardy — a French artist and co-founder of visual label ANTIVJ —morphed the old Church of St. Cryil and Methodius with digital projections and twelve light statues scattered through the garden. It’s what he calls “imaginary debris,” and each shape derived from a specific element found on the church’s facade illuminates the garden at night.

Photo by Dusan Vondra

Photo by Alexander Dobrovodsky

The most popular square in Prague, Repubic Square (Náměstí Republiky) hosted the work of Czech industrial designer and architect Tomáš Dymeš. Set in the heart of the city, the installation, Touch, communicates with the crowd of people touching it — each person’s physical contact with the installation lights up a line, and the foggy, globe-shaped light installation reflects a world of contact forming right at that moment, with people from every angle able to see and respond to each other.

Photo by Jiri Seda

Photo by Dusan Vondra

Clam-Gallas Palace, designed by imperial court architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, is a baroque residence in the Prague Old Town neighborhood that once held Jewish concerts attended by music’s greats such as Beethoven and Mozart. Here, Richard Loskot and UAII Studio have created a physical manifestation of clouds in heaven called “Sky on the Earth.” Soft, bubbly, foamy incandescent shapes surround two sides of a low lying pedestrian bridge. Festival goers can take a slice of heaven with them by reaching into the clouds.

Prague’s Signal Festival is underrated. When I was there for the weekend, I shared tables with tourists from America and Australia at Cafe Pavlac and they had no idea that the cultural event was happening. To be fair to them, it’s rarely listed in travel guides or cultural event calendars; that’s understandable given the event’s youth, but also quite a shame. It was a great reason to visit Prague and see historic buildings through new eyes.

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Getting Grounded - Guerrilla Gardening - Ringing Cedar Series

Getting Grounded – Guerrilla Gardening – Ringing Cedar Series

As we tumble through our busy lives, tied to schedules, eyes glued to screens, ears always full of information or noise; it’s easy to wonder why we bother. “Is that all there is?” as Peggy Lee sings.

What are we here for if all we do is run from one place to the next and then we die? Hm. There must be more to it.

Although the hippies demonstrated it in the 60s and the New Age people preached it…

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Orto in casa e in città: ecco come e perchè fa bene a noi e all'ambiente!

Orto in casa e in città: ecco come e perchè fa bene a noi e all’ambiente!

È gardening mania. Poco importa se abbiamo a disposizione una piccola aiuola, un soleggiato terrazzo o un minuscolo balcone, l’orto cittadino è una passione che “germoglia” in un numero sempre più ampio di persone. Ed è davvero alla portata di tutti! Gli orti urbani: 5 buoni motivi per coltivare anche in città

 Mangiare cibo sano perché coltivato con le nostre mani;

 Ricavare un piccolo guadagno,…

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TED - Ron Finley: A guerilla gardener in South Central LA

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I found a spot in a neighboorhood close to my house today that is great for guerrilla gardening. its ugly and desolate and no one takes care of it. Near a bridge thats right behind my house and its a little weird probably because the jail is right there. So im going to plant some giant moon flowers andddd some thing else i have to look for my extra seeds probably wild flowers. I will post pictures if flowers do pop up . I might have to bring some coffee grounds and soil and add a little to make it better?