Numerous times, we feel stressed and tired. So, do you know how to tackle them? The solution is gardening. Indeed, when I think about gardening, I feel calm and composed. I always thought, why is it so? And I get the answer: it is our need. And today, I’ll come up with a new gardening idea, i.e., the need for guerilla gardening.
Guerilla gardening involves planting numerous fruits, vegetables, flowers, and other plants and helping people take advantage of them. It also makes the environment greener and healthier.
I noticed that today, everyone is talking about work, work, and work and neglecting their and others’ peace. So, focus on your mind and soul more than your work and start doing guerilla gardening.
To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow…
~Audrey Hepburn
Let’s explore the need for guerilla gardening, understand how we plant species that are helpful for pollinators as well as other animals, and create a beautiful landscape for butterflies and the local community.
Guerilla gardening ensures that you don’t have to harm the environment as well as people’s spaces.
First, let’s learn about Guerilla Gardening!!!
Guerilla Gardening – It’s About Protecting the Environment
Guerilla gardening is the best way to make your community greener and healthier without annoying anyone. It is all about improving the lives of urban people with the help of cultivating plants in public places, usually those that are not used.
It improves the temperature in urban areas as well as public spaces that have become wastelands. Apart from this, it also enhances biodiversity, spreads beauty, produces fresh food, and builds communities.
The aim of guerilla gardening is:
- Enhance the neighbourhood’s quality of life.
- Grow food for the needy people.
- Protest against the non-environmental use of spaces.
Need of Guerilla Gardening
Urban cities lack trees and greenery, which makes them heat islands. This is due to the construction of buildings and factories, pollution, and technological advancement. Moreover, global warming also increases heat day by day. So, we have to do it and save the environment without annoying anyone. We have to do sustainable gardening.
So, we need guerilla gardening to:
- Convert carbon dioxide into oxygen.
- Remove greenhouse gases from the environment.
- Eliminate the need for air conditioning by providing shade and coolness.
- Stop floods by absorbing rainwater.
- Maximize local biodiversity.
- Craft more equitable access to nature.
- Bring green life to underfunded areas.
- Give and take the ecosystems.
You do not have the right to do guerilla gardening in places that do not belong to us. But you have to grow plants in unused areas and spaces without oppressing anyone because we are doing good not to harm others. So, so it rightly.
Benefits of guerilla gardening
- Recycle and repurpose the unused spaces.
- Cultivate plants on the sides of busy streets of the cities.
- Reinvent the spaces with greenery.
- Enhance air quality.
- Mitigate heat waves.
- Provide homes and fresh food for wildlife and needy people.
- Get a clean and calm environment.
- Recover from mental illness.
Overall, we can see how guerilla gardening is essential and why we need it.
Let’s move on to the next section!!!
How Do You Do Guerilla Gardening?
Step 1: Find the space
The best place to do guerilla gardening is a public space or neglected space that is not being used. Such as:
- tree pits,
- road verges,
- abandoned public planters,
- vacant lots,
- walls, and fences.
Step 2: Get permission
Guerilla gardening is a risky task. So, choose places where you can easily get permission or where you don’t need permission.
Step 3: Build a network
Don’t hesitate to start solo or take help from the local community in maintaining plants. Apart from this, you can easily pay attention to every plant through a reliable network of people.
Step 4: What to plant?
Now, it’s time for plants to choose. You can plant wildflowers, daffodils, marigolds, etc., that are quickly grown and require less maintenance.
Step 5: Keep an eye on
Every gardener is challenged by climate change, pests, and watering plants. Like a house gardener, a guerilla gardener also faces challenges like dogs, vandals, litter, etc. So, you have to protect your plants through wiring, thorny plants, fences, and by putting posters.
Step 6: Keep doing and don’t get tired
Gardening helps to remove tiredness or stress, so don’t get tired when you do it. Instead, just keep doing it and consider all of its benefits.
Step 7: Be smart and spend smartly
You have to spend smartly on guerilla gardening. All you can do is:
- Take help from local people through donating plants or money.
- Find out some passionate gardeners and get help from them by getting free tools and plants.
- Get seeds and soil from your neighbourhood or local gardeners.
In conclusion, enjoy every moment of guerilla gardening by giving time to this beneficial activity. And don’t forget to research a lot by choosing plants for guerilla gardening. So, you can easily make a big difference by doing small things.
Let’s Conclude
I tried to give you information on guerilla gardening and how to do it without harming other people. You have to find out a place where you can easily do guerilla gardening. It can help maintain a healthy environment and healthy culture.
Let’s make a big difference and create a healthy environment!
If you have any other ideas for reducing pollution, then tell me!
Happy gardening!