The crack garden. "A crack team of guerrilla gardeners will undertake tactical missions to etch similar tectonic fissures in the parking lots of failed suburban malls and abandoned inner neighborhoods of post-industrial cities. With pneumatic drills or with pick axes and some elbow grease, they'll wound the earth's (un)natural asphalt skin, so that forgotten ecologies may return and hopefully fester". Via Pruned. More how-to information here.
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Really excellent how-to information. Thank you.
I'm wondering how they recruited these lively people. Is this a Sierra Club chapter? ??? A college group? ?? A permaculture group? And are there now any photographs of the finished site?
Posted by: Elise Hancock | July 27, 2010 at 06:16 AM