Who doesn’t like sunflowers? Their impressive height and large, cheerful blooms bring joy wherever they grow. This 1st of May, celebrate an underground but growing holiday during which people sow sunflower seeds to beautify their communities. About Guerrilla Gardening The guerrilla gardening movement plants on abandoned properties as a way of taking back their community spaces. Technically, this practice is often illegal, as the guerrilla gardeners don’t own the spaces. However, it has become a popular and widespread activity that, far from causing harm, only beautifies abandoned spaces. A famous early guerrilla gardener is the American folk hero John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed. He planted acres of apple orchards along the western frontier during the early 1800s. While Johnny Appleseed was probably looking for a way to turn a profit, modern guerrilla gardeners are more like social warriors. The phrase comes from Liz Christy, the leader of a […]
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