This collection of writings, assembled at a time of crisis for NYC community gardens, imagines the radical possibilities of urban gardening. Bringing together NYC history, political analysis, utopian schemes, poetic accounts of what gardening can create, and investigations into the dynamics of sustainability, community, high and low technologies, and power, this book challenges the Supermarket to the World ideologies of global capital. Includes work by Sarah Ferguson, Jack Collom, Carmelo Ruiz, the editors, and others.
Read More
This collection of writings, assembled at a time of crisis for NYC community gardens, imagines the radical possibilities of urban gardening. Bringing together NYC history, political analysis, utopian schemes, poetic accounts of what gardening can create, and investigations into the dynamics of sustainability, community, high and low technologies, and power, this book challenges the Supermarket to the World ideologies of global capital. Includes work by Sarah Ferguson, Jack Collom, Carmelo Ruiz, the editors, and others.
Read Less
After a rather rambling 'stream-of-consiousness' opening essay by the editor Peter Lamborn Wilson, Avant Gardeners settles into a fascinating survey of urban Edens. The gardeners themselves explain their motivation for their guerilla gardening antics and the serious ecological consequences of their actions. Its is a visionary book of interest to guerilla gardeners, allotmenteers, artists and ecologist. In fact the contributing essayists, who include Joe Hollis and Lyx Ish might actually convince you to have a go yourself and create your own horticultural paradise.
