Actions for Gardening

A Los Angeles law makes all fruit and vegetables growing over sidewalks “public,” so that even trees rooted in private yards may bear public fruit.

Train tracks can be wild corridors where plants grow because they are in the heart of the industrialized city: trains move long distances and generate strong local winds, carrying along pollen and

Food is be sold and eaten under rigid legal and customary rules: expiry dates and cosmetic imperfections result in the disposal of many still-edible foods.

“Wildman” Steve Brill has been leading forages in Central Park and the New York City region for over twenty-five years.

Two ‘social construction’ projects directed by the atelier d’architecture autogérée for neighbourhoods in Paris that lacked green space.

A reusable seed-bomb dispersal system, the N55 PROTEST Rocket can carry a 2-kilogram payload to an altitude of over 5 kilometres.

Operation: Ivy League is a project to plant ivy on corporate London architecture. It is a natural appropriation organized by residents and commuters as an attack on dull and homogeneous buildings.

A pilot project for productive planting, Victory Gardens revived eponymous programs created in the United States, Canada, and Britain for producing food during the First World War.

Seed bombs are mixtures of clay, humus, and seeds designed to sustain seed growth – like the yolk of an egg – until the plant can interact with the environment.

A participatory project to preserve and upgrade a five-hundred-family shantytown on the edge of Columbo while improving residents’ access to water and integrating agricultural spaces for the produc

An 11-hectare community farm located in an area severely damaged by hurricane Katrina, Viet Village Urban Farm was designed by residents of New Orleans East with architects Mossop + Michaels to res

A recycled and recyclable installation in the P.S. 1 courtyard, Public Farm One is a stage for the museum’s summer music series and a model for vertical farming in the city.

A market and massive “continuous” picnic held to show how urban food production and public space can be combined advantageously in central London.

A system for the transformation of vacant lots into community gardens using plastic bags filled with dirt, seeds, and water.

The Edible Campus project demonstrates that underutilized concrete spaces can be unobtrusively made edible with little effort and low cost.