Guerrilla gardening is not exactly news. In fact it’s been around since someone called Liz Christy turned a derelict lot in the Bowery Houston area of New York into an advert for agrarian living in 1975. Liz did such a good job that her garden is now protected by the New York City Parks Department. In the grim, grey, cold United Kingdom, guerrilla gardening has been on the rise since the 1980s and takes place just about anywhere you can scatter a seed, from Parliament Square to outside Harold Shipman’s former slaughter parlour. They even turned the idea into a TV show in Australia. But it’s the diligent people sowing on a daily basis that make the movement to reclaim disused, rotting bits of urban wasteland one you should truly give a crap about. People a bit like Chris Tomlinson.
