Guerrilla gardening

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Guerrilla gardening is the act of gardening – raising food, plants, or flowers – on land that gardeners do not have the legal right to cultivate, such as abandoned sites, neglected public spaces, or private property. It encompasses a diverse range of people and motivations, ranging from gardeners who garden beyond their legal boundaries in defiance of state or local property laws, to gardeners with a deliberate political purpose, who seek to initiate change by using guerrilla gardening methods as a form of protest or direct action. The term, "guerrilla gardening" blends the Spanish word guerrilla (meaning "little war") with gardening to symbolize grassroots, activist-style tactics used to help nature reclaim public or private space. Guerrilla gardening often challenges social norms concerning land rights, aiming to promote criticism of how public institutions or private land owners manage property, by repurposing or reclaiming land perceived as being neglected or misused by its legal owners...

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