Glasgow Guerrilla Gardening

UPDATE: http://northkelvinmeadow.com/2009/08/21/court-case-21st-aug-09/

Karen Chung and Douglas Peacock, along with the ‘North Kelvinside Green Space Initiative’  have been summoned to appear at the Sheriff Court in Glasgow on 21/08/09 at 12 noon to defend an action that has been brought against them by Glasgow City Council. GCC wants to stop the raised beds, the bat boxes, the use of the renovated brick building and people working on the land at the Meadow.

http://northkelvinmeadow.com/2009/08/18/growing-vegetables-on-25-year-vacant-council-land-ends-up-in-court/

Also: http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2526360.0.Guerrilla_gardeners_in_court_to_defend_allotment.php

http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/121592/Council-s-court-bid-to-kick-out-eco-volunteers/

http://www.thesun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/2597497/Glasgow-City-Council-takes-local-gardeners-to-court-over-land.html

http://www.twodoctors.org/2009/08/glasgow-city-council-loses-the.html

Tags: 2009, glasgow city council, guerrilla gardening, North kelvin meadow, North Kelvinside Meadow, scotland

North Kelvin Meadow still need your help,  please visit their website for more information:

http://northkelvinmeadow.com

Tags: allotments, glasgow, glasgow city council, Glasgow West, North kelvin meadow, North Kelvinside Meadow

With summer slipping by rapidly- yes it really is July not a mass calender based prank- our thoughts have turned towards the coming year. So now that you’re all depressed allow us to cheer you up by introducing the Ten Thousand Bulb challenge.

Those of you who’ve visited our site at Townhead will be aware it’s a fair old size so in order to get it looking really good for next spring we need bulbs and lots of them. We are aiming to attract sufficient donations in either cash or bulbs to let us blanket our Townhead and Wilson Street sites in thousands of blooms.

Between now and December 31st 2009 we hope to obtain and plant a whopping ten thousand bulbs and will be frenziedly panhandling for the next few months.  If you’d like to help out you can either use the paypal button on this page to make a donation, bring a bag of bulbs along to a dig or contact us to arrange to send bulbs to one of the troops. A no cost donation can also be made simply by visiting our Squidoo page as we earn royalties from traffic, sign ups and purchases made from the page. If you have a blog we’d be delighted if you would spare the time to write a short post about the challenge to encourage as many folk as possible to get involved.

If you have a business or website you’d like to promote we’ll be happy to write a short post highlighting your donation and add a link to our sidebar in return. We do get the occasional bit of press interest and this site attracts a good amount of traffic so it’s an excellent way to advertise cheaply whilst helping us out. We are also quite happy for you to publicise your donation and may be open to participating in any susequent publicity as long as we’re not asked to tell fibs, dance, dress up or sing.

Our bulb wishlist is below and we’ll keep you updated over the next few months as to how we’re getting on meeting our target and of course let you see the results once the bulbs bloom next year.

1000 Mixed Daffodils

1000 Mixed Tulips

1000 Snakeshead Fritillaries

1000 Snowdrops

1000 Mixed Crocuses

1000 Bluebells (native only please)

1000 Grape Hyacinths

1000 Winter Aconites

1000 Mixed Alluims

1000 Wood Anemome

We’ve selected the above for their ability to naturalise, visual impact and beneficial affect to wildlife apart from tulips who’re there to look nice and little else.  Successfully naturalised daffodil fields have been known to last for up to fifty years which means if we meet our target our  sites  will be in bloom for years to come.

We’ll be planting our first donated bulbs up at Townhead on 29th August at 12:30pm if anyone fancies joining us with a bag of bulbs from the above list.

Tags: 2009, dates for the diary, ten thousand bulb challenge

Message from transition scotland:
www.transitionscotland.org
www.transitiontowns.org

Hello,

Are you part of a community led group interested in creating happy, healthy and sustainable local lives and livelihoods?

Then please come along to the WEST Scotland Transition Regional Gathering in West Kilbride. It on Saturday 11th July, 9.30 – 4.30 and its FREE. To book a place please register by opening the poster above, go to the link, fill in your details and send to us – Deadline Tuesady 7th July 5pm.

Scrumcious FOOD will be provided free, help with TRAVEL is available, + a CRECHE for children. Also, if you require free transport from Glasgow and back there will be a minibus – to book a place please email luci@transitionscotland.org by MONDAY 6th July 5pm, thanks

Transition Scotland Support is collaborating with local Transition Initiatives around Scotland to host regional gatherings. The idea is that these will offer people in each area the chance to get together and see how they might be able to help and support one another to work towards local sustainability.

Whether you’re part of a local Transition Initiative (or want to be!) or are involved in other projects related to local food, sustainable transport, affordable housing, local energy generation, community ownership of assets, creating local jobs or promoting green living, we’re hoping you’ll come along and spend a day getting to know other people working in similar areas in their communities, swapping stories and sharing resources.

We hope you can make it along!

:end message
gathering-poster-11-july

Tags: scotland

This Friday at around 4pm, Jen and Michael from this web-site will be at the CCA. We will be giving both a presentation and a short question and answer session to anyone who comes along. If you would like to know more about Guerrilla Gardening or you would like to start doing some in Glasgow then please come along.

The CCA are running an exhibition right now, please visit the following site for more information: This land is your land.

Tags: 2009, cca, dates for the diary, glasgow, guerrilla gardening, scotland

Some of you may have heard of The North Kelvin Meadow, some of you may even have helped out over at the site. Within the last week, North Kelvin Meadow have been informed that the land they are using may be about to be sold.

For more information, please visit: northkelvinmeadow.com. If you can help them, please lend your support.

Thank you,

Michael

Tags: 2009, dear green place, glasgow, glasgow city council, Glasgow West, North Kelvinside Meadow, planting, recruitment

Last Saturday we started our mission to cheer up the High Street and beyond by massed planting of nasturtiums. I’ve put a few in on Blackfriars Street, Wilson Street and was joined by my fellow guerrillas to add a few to our Townhead site and down the High Street.

However the march of the nasturtiums does not end there. This Friday we’ll be meeting at Townhead at 12pm to continue sowing seeds on the High Street. As ever we’d love to see you there, so please come along with a few packets of nasturtiums and something to poke them in with (an old pen or pencil) is ideal.

If your a facebook user, you can now join our facebook group:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=61454488657&ref=nf

Thanks

Tags: facebook, glasgow, guerrilla gardening

Taking advantage of the a lovely dry but cold winters day I nipped up to Townhead to plant some hostas, carex and a chocolate vine.

The bad news is that the garden has suffered it’s most serious attack to date, in addition to the dumping of an almost unbelievable amount of rubbish several plants have been stolen. Needless to say this is very frustrating and disappointing. I sincerely hope those responsible have a thoroughly miserable and unpleasant 2009. Still I suppose that we should be grateful that it’s them and not us going through life with such rancid and ugly personalities.

It is also worth remembering that despite this set back most people have been supportive and most of the plants have been left alone. What has been stolen will be replaced as soon as I can get to the garden centre and believe me they’ll get sick of this long before I do.

All in all there’s a lot to look forward to in 2009, more of which in another post.

Tags: attacks, gardening, gardening pictures, glasgow, guerrilla gardening, planting, scotland, townhead

Tree For All – Glasgow Event

Start: 29/11/2008
For a fun winter day out then join the Woodland Trust Scotland and Glasgow City Council for a day of tree planting and woodland activities on Heathcote Avenue, Drumchapel. As well as tree planting there will be wood sculpting and willow weaving.

The event is part of a wider tree planting programme involving both the Woodland Trust Scotland and Glasgow City Council.

Come along to Heathcote Ave on Saturday 29th November, the fun starts at 11.00am and runs until 3.00pm

For more information contact Rebecca Whitley on 08452 935 790

Tags: drumchapel, glasgow, glasgow city council, trees, woodland trust