Guerrilla Gardener's Blog

New Community Garden!

admin — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:54:53 +0000

We are working on a beautiful project, take a look at this (italian) PRESENTATION

Hanging vegetable garden in plastic bottles

admin — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:54:11 +0000

Reusing is a great topic.
When we reuse items, we re-invent their possible combination with the enviroment.
With our imagination, everything could do anything: it’s a magical power.
Sometimes it works, many other times it does not.

This garden is made with plastic bottles, which have a little technological variation, in order to become subirrigated planters.

The experiment seems working pretty well, especially with the aromatic herbs and flowers. I’m trying tomatoes and eggplants too, but obviously they are not very productive.
This urban way to cultivate let us spare space, money and time.

The black thin pipe is the automatic drop watering system. It makes it even easier!

Instructions:

IKEA Workshop

admin — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:04:59 +0000

Ikea found this technique so interesting that they organized with us a first beautiful workshop for 15 families, offering one “Snalis” container full of plants to each family.
Everybody was involved in setting the container and planting tomatoes, zucchini, lettuces, eggplants.. It was a success and we all are looking forward to repeat this experience.

We created even some clear instructions, with the Ikea design:

First sub-irrigated Community Garden

admin — Sun, 22 May 2011 14:30:19 +0000

We started!
Finally we created the pilot project for more Community Gardens like this to come.
This first garden will have 50 containers in total, in this picture you see only 30 of them:

Everyone can “adopt” a container for 25 € for 6 months, and harvest it.
With a daily coffee we could support 7 containers!
Plus, every 4 containers adopted, we create one just for the underprivileged of the neighborhood.

Urban Farming in Florence

admin — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:57:00 +0000

We are very excited about a new project going on here in Florence.
We are creating a group of volunteers to set up the first urban community vegetable garden based on the subirrigation.
Subirrigation is a very efficient and simple technology that is known since centuries and centuries but is still not very popular, especially among urban citizens.
Here’s a presentation (in italian) for more details:

Our goal is to create a network of little city vegetable gardens and share this knowledge with everybody interested.
We’ll post surely the progress of the project!

GG published by IO Donna magazine

admin — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:06:37 +0000

The exact day Melissa and Giacomo got married (10 of July 2010) this picture was published by Io Donna (Corriere della Sera).
It was part of a very nice article about special gardens in Italy..
This hanging vegetable one, on the Florentine roofs, was included for its originality, we suppose.

Art + Seed

admin — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:26:46 +0000

Johnny Kelly is really an amazing visual poet.
In this fantastic video he mixes stopmotion and classical drawing animation, crating a beautiful story about the cycle of a seed.
I thank him for having generated such an incredible work, and I’m proud to share it with all of you!

Eco Park(ing) Day in Florence

admin — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 11:56:12 +0000

Yesterday Guerrilla Gardener took part to the Eco Parking Day in Florence.
It’s a great idea born in San Francisco in 2005, that has been sprouting all over the world and finally arrived to Florence. It was superbly organized by Kindi which created even this site to celebrate the event.
We had such a fun!
Many kids came to play with our seedmatches… let’s just hope they’ll plant them next spring.

Seedmatches of love

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:00:00 +0000

For our wedding keep-sake we created the seedmatches with daisy and lavender seeds.
Our guests loved them!

Local TV interview

admin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:45:18 +0000

We’d like to share with you this 2 minutes interview (in italian) where we present some of our green ideas.
It was recorded the 25th of june and was shown the exact day of our wedding, the 10 of july.
Nice coincidence…