Glasgow Guerrilla Gardening

Guerrilla gardeners are reclaiming Glasgow’s neglected spaces … one plant at a time

21st August: 7pm: Townhead

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It was almost year ago that we all got together and started doing some work as a group. To mark that, we are going to meet up at Townhead at 7.  A quick bit of tidying up then we will head to Mono on King Street for a celebratory drink of tea/coffee/ginger beer or just beer, we will be there around 8pm.  We will be the ones with the muddy boots.

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

We have been contacted by some folk down in Erskine who are wanting to do some guerrilla gardening ‘under the bridge’. Not many details as yet, if you want to know more, please get in touch and I’ll forward your name and contact information on.

Thanks
Michael

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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

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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.

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We have been asked a few times about doing some Guerrilla Gardening down in the South Side of town. We would be up for doing that anytime!

All we need is a site to work at, so if you know of anywhere, please get in touch.

On Friday the 12th at 6pm. We will be doing some Guerrilla Gardening at the bottom of Renfrew Street under the pedestrian bridge:

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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.

This was our first meet up of the year. We all brought along some plants. Myself, I filled a big bag of 50p plants from the (almost dead) bargain shelf corner of  B&Q (I’ll definitely be going back on a Friday evening to get more for my own garden and for other Guerrilla Gardening projects). I’ll not spend all my Friday evenings at B&Q though .

Here are some shots from Saturday (31/01/2009):

As has been said before, please feel free to pop along if your interested, we don’t bite. Also, a big thanks for the donation of summer bulbs left by whomever.

thanks,

Michael

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.