Guerrilla Gardening with Stinging Nettles

Guerrilla gardening is most commonly viewed as the act of planting and growing vegetables, herbs, and trees on others people’s property without the owners permission.  Usually an abandoned or neglected plot or in parks or recreation areas.  Though some might not consider my guerrilla gardening legit since I was on land that I own, I look at guerrilla gardening as gardening in an unconventional location.  Kind of like guerrilla warfare if you will.  This past weekend I got on my camo pants and long leave shirt; my machete, a hand trowel, and a tray of stinging nettle seedlings; and headed into the woods to do some gardening. Jack Spirko has an excellent podcast episode on guerrilla gardening – Guerrilla Gardening for Fun, Education and Survival.  The image above is made available for use under the Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.

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