Last year at about this time, I learned about
yarn bombing. This year, seed bombing! Until now, I had thought of gardening only as a passive pastime. Not so!
Seed-bombing is a form of garden activism that has been around for years, but has recently made news. At a recent seed-bombing workshop in
Washington, D.C., Emmy Gran taught participants how to become "
guerrilla gardeners" by making and lobbing seed balls - plus the art of captioning this green form of civil disobedience with a little biodegradable moss graffiti. A teenage gardener offers
instructions and a Mom in Vancouver, British Columbia, explains, "
Seed balls, simply put, are a method for distributing seeds by encasing them in a mixture of clay and compost. This protects the seeds by preventing them from drying out in the sun, getting eaten by birds, or from blowing away. Seed balls are scattered directly on the ground, not planted....I like ‘em because they’re easy to chuck over fences into empty lots."
Aerial reforestation has been used on a smaller scale to beautify and reclaim
vacant inner-city properties in cities like
Detroit (
see list of successful projects here) and on a larger scale (from planes) to
reintroduce vegetation onto land devastated by forest fires or other natural disasters like Haiti and countries in Africa.
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Selected past posts about seeds:
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"Things have slowed down enough for me to finish reading your most recent
book and what a book! Since I have a personal interest in the evolution
of the autopsy, I know what an enormous effort you must have expended
in gathering the often obscure sources. Yet your presentation of them
reads more like an action, especially the section on "bodysnatching"...Historically, dissection with the anatomic knowledge
gained must precede the era of the autopsy. This is where your book
comes in....one can easily see the enormous
vacuum your book fills, especially the medieval period....Sincerest congratulations again for an enormous contribution
to the history of dissection."
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