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[mat]

Found this on NPR, and had heard anecdotally seed balls (bombing open, undeveloped tracts of land) was becoming more popular in urban areas, especially in the US and GB.

All Things Considered, April 15, 2009 · Neighborhood organizations across the U.S. that want to improve the environment are using a surprising weapon: seed balls.

It's a technique for planting in abandoned places and often inhospitable land that was developed in Japan by Masanobu Fukuoka, a pioneer in "natural farming."

The technique has worked its way to Brooklyn, N.Y. In the Greenpoint neighborhood on a recent Sunday afternoon, a small group of activists walked the streets carrying paper bags filed with little balls made from clay, compost and seeds. They are members of a local group called NAG, or Neighbors Allied for Good Growth. They drop the balls on dirt piles and throw them into abandoned lots.

This could be part of the next VV walk!!

[Baro]

Most of our abandoned lots don't seem to need any help becoming lovely little over-grown bogs or ponds.

[VicDuck]

That's for sure. Their like mini grasslands now.

[victriviaqueen]

I actually wondered if that had been done to the former Bambu lot on Fisgard a couple of years ago...

[Mike K.]

That's so bizarre that you brought this up, Mat. A friend gave me one of these "bombs" yesterday. Not sure where I want to throw mine. Perhaps the swamplands at the Concert office site?

[VicHockeyFan]

That's so bizarre that you brought this up, Mat. A friend gave me one of these "bombs" yesterday. Not sure where I want to throw mine. Perhaps the swamplands at the Concert office site?

...might as well launch 'er into The Hudson.

[mat]

That's so bizarre that you brought this up, Mat. A friend gave me one of these "bombs" yesterday. Not sure where I want to throw mine. Perhaps the swamplands at the Concert office site?

Let's make it a VV contest - 'Open Lot that needs Bombing Now!' - and make it part of the next VV meet?

I am secretly glad this tiny bit of social disorder has arrived in Victoria. Bombs away...

[phx]

social disorder --- lol

As if the vacant land owners are going to mind getting free landscaping work.

[Bernard]

I have planted veggies close to the sidewalk on Maddock, time to take over this useless grass space.......

[Barra]

My vote for a guerrilla garden site is the lot south of View Towers, currently the location of very long grass. A few years ago some guerrilla gardeners indicated that they were going to plant a vegetable garden there, (to feed the poor) but nothing became of it.....

[North Shore]

I've often thought about being somewhat subversive and planting seeds of 'those' plants in all sorts of places all over the city. Outside the 700 - block Vernon Avenue is a prime location!

[mat]

I've often thought about being somewhat subversive and planting seeds of 'those' plants in all sorts of places all over the city. Outside the 700 - block Vernon Avenue is a prime location!

LOL - and ruin the perfect border planting that sets off the Saanich Municipal buildings so well?

[Victoria Watcher]

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https://www.cbc.ca/n...dness-1.6767704

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 05 March 2023 - 03:32 PM.

[lanforod]

Way to resurrect dead threads man

[Victoria Watcher]

I’m only one man.

 

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Edited by Victoria Watcher, 05 March 2023 - 06:24 PM.