San Francisco is once again spearheading the guerrilla cultural movement with the latest in guerrilla gardening — Guerrilla Grafting in which trees around the city are grafted with delicious, freely available fruits.
San Francisco will experience an unexpected windfall of free fruit thanks to a group of graft-happy gardeners. They call themselves the Guerrilla Grafters, and their vision is to see the trees lining the city streets begin to produce perfectly edible food. When I interviewed one of the Guerrilla Grafters recently, I learned that it’s not all about the grafting.
I discovered that Tara (last name withheld to protect her privacy), an early member of the Guerrilla Grafters, cares deeply about the society in which we live and our relationship with public spaces. We had interesting and engaging chat via Skype, and she explained what’s behind their efforts to crowd-source caring for fruiting trees in public spaces.
Source: thisirradiatedlife on YouTube This "smart" meter is on the street, pumping out pulses at head-level, in a busy up-and-coming neighborhood called Dogpatch. Watch us cover it with foil and cut peak emissions to a tenth of the levels. A larger covering of foil would have provided greater ...
We finally had our first underground market meeting here in Vancouver. It went really well, we met in a lovely old house in a nice central location. I even--just barely--remembered to get a photo to document the event--too bad my camera sucks at indoor photos-this was the best I could do. We decided ...
I recently came across the organization NextCourse in my travels on the web. As they say, San Francisco is indeed at the forefront of improvement and ever since Alice Waters started the Edible Schoolyards project in 1995, I have been very excited with what is going on down there. Next Course include ...
Published in Far West Almanac, November 2009. I recently attended a Food Justice Forum geared to generate a variety of solutions to the issues of getting nourishing food to the lowest income groups in the downtown Vancouver, BC area, while still paying the farmers a living wage. This is an issue ...
