Reviews for Greening Cities, Growing Communities: Learning from Seattle's Urban Community Gardens

The average rating for Greening Cities, Growing Communities: Learning from Seattle's Urban Community Gardens based on 2 reviews is 1.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-11-23 00:00:00 Jay Miller I really dug this book. I have been a guerrilla gardener off and on now for several years, mostly planting giant sunflowers. To clarify, a guerrilla gardener gardens on neglected public land without permission. Discovering this book was like finding the handbook, and network, I always wished I had. Richard Reynolds takes it farther than I had previously imagined, enlisting troops to go on large digs (roadside embankments, traffic circles, vacant lots, etc.) in an attempt to beautify the urban landscape for the betterment of all. Points of interest include seed bombs and bulb mining. He also goes into the history of it (with recorded history as far back as the Diggers in 1649)and shares the knowledge he has gleaned from other troops in the field across the globe. Check it out at my link text

Review # 2 was written on 2010-06-24 00:00:00 Chet Hurey I read this when I was living with my first garden in London, and was totally smitten by the gardening bug. (This is easy to fall prey to, since the UK has a ferociously avid gardening culture that has no equivalent in the US. For example, the Chelsea garden show is covered on TV for three consecutive nights--in prime time!) So now, I find myself slammed down in Slummerville, MA and completely surrounded by pavement, and this book is giving me ideas. Total punk rock approach to what has traditionally been the most staid and settled activity. More than anything, its a whip-smart manifesto about the often overlooked need for the presence of the botanical world in human life, and the means of introducing it by any means necessary. I've got my eye on a wasted patch of bark mulch in my neighborhood.