Sunday, December 14, 2008

Guerilla Gardening 园艺游击队

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澳洲华人园艺游击队 Chinese Guerrilla Gardeners in Windsor
在前些年,中国曾有过“超生游击队”, 现在不知中国是否有“园艺游击队”。谷歌上搜索,发现此文:

http://epaper.xkb.com.cn/view.php?id=294900
园艺游击队,雷诺兹的解释是“在未得到许可的情况下种别人的土地”。上个月,他出版了一本书,名为《关于园艺游击队》。这本书从政治和历史的角度讲述了人们多年来奋斗的结果。“园艺游击队”这个词最早出现在上世纪70年代末的纽约。伴随着城市的金融危机,这些自命的“绿色游击队”开始耕作下东区一带的废弃土地。园艺游击队的成员来自阿姆斯特丹、卡尔加里、都灵、东京或者洛杉矶,他们集结在雷诺兹的博客——guerrillagardening.org,共同讨论园艺游击队的经验和建议。这个网站现在已经有4000名注册用户,包括布鲁塞尔的向日葵种植专家、柏林的民间园艺组织以及旧金山的将废地改为菜园的实践者"
《维基百科》上到有不少介绍。新疆电视台也于2008年5月1日报道了英国的园艺游击队。

在经济不振的全球大环境下,各国园艺都受人欢迎.一则可欣赏花草,疏解压力;二则美化居家环境,增加物业价值;三则可有花果享用,贴补家用.物质和精神双丰收.

本人及内助无意中成了园艺游击队员。其实并无拯救地球的宏愿,只是看到临近的教堂有点被人遗忘,而他们那些礼拜的人多是年岁大的人,我们只好先斩后奏,在附近撒种和移植了金盏菊和龙舌兰等。除了我们的时间,自家花园的花苗和一点爱心,我们并不破费钱财。
游击队的性质就是没有官方或正是的授权和认可,先斩后奏行事.

教会的长老看到鲜艳花朵后,逢人夸奖我们。最后她还把教堂工具房的钥匙交个我们,让我们随时义务整理花园。前几天, 我还帮他们种上了我成功剪枝的薰衣草.
看来我们这对游击队花匠, 被招安而成为正式的义工花匠.

据本人体会,园艺游击队可定义为那些关心公共环境,热心园艺的人义务地,没有授权的情况下,对荒漠,失修及缺乏整理的土地作改善的活动.这些包括种植赏心悦目的花草,鲜美可口的果蔬及土生濒于灭种的植物等.

今后,我们会更留心社区的环境,学习园艺,义务整理共用地段.澳洲华人园艺游击队生涯才刚开始.







Guerrilla Gardeners in Windsor 园艺游击队
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_gardening#Guerilla_Gardening_in_Australia
Guerrilla gardening is political gardening, a form of nonviolent direct action, primarily practiced by environmentalists. It is related to land rights, land reform, and permaculture. Activists take over ("squat") an abandoned piece of land which they do not own to grow crops or plants. Guerrilla gardeners believe in re-considering land ownership in order to reclaim land from perceived neglect or misuse and assign a new purpose to it. Some guerrilla gardeners carry out their actions at night, in relative secrecy, to sow and tend a new vegetable patch or flower garden. Others work more openly, seeking to engage with members of the local community, as illustrated in the examples that follow. It has grown into a form of proactive activism or pro-activism. "

---I would simple put it as a form of unauthorized gardening and land improvement by zealous neighborhood gardeners. There isn't much to be political about it.
You just see a patch of under-appreciated land and cannot resist planting something and make it look/smell/taste much better.

Guerilla gardening in Australia divides into twop main groups: one concerned most with native planting, the other with communal food growing.
Planting some fragrant flowers is the cheapest and easiest way to make an instant change. This demonstrated 3 attempts to improve this weed-infected track.