This sure looks like a sunflower to me….

Sunflower - 13Jul07

This event went so well.

Making seed balls - In trays for drying

Read about it here* and see more pictures here

The next step is to plant them. April 1st seem like a great day for that.
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*08April07 - Meetup.com changed their message format from online writing/storage to email only. What they didn’t tell us is that they would be deleting all existing messages. Grrr!

16March07 - More about seed balls from workshop participant Andrea Bellamy here and here

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All the construction near Cambie St resulted in a lot of side streets being dug up, so in a move to restore the ground, earth was put down and grass seed was spread.

19th & Tupper West#1

What an opportunity to add to the diversity.

19th & Tupper East#1

I took seeds of white dutch clover and
crimson clover

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and spread them thickly over the area.

19th & Tupper East#2

Want to do some guerrilla gardening yourself but need the strength of numbers?

The Vancouver Guerrilla Gardening Meetup Group has links to GG info in other parts of the world.
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Sign up on Meetup.com website….

Seed ball making workshop - The Vancouver Guerilla Gardening Meetup Group (Vancouver, BC) - Meetup.com

When: Saturday, March 10, 2007, 1:00 PM

Where: Mount Pleasant Community Center
3161 Ontario Street
Vancouver , BC V5T 2Z1

Description:

We will be supplying

Seed - Crimson clover, White dutch clover, grass seeds, wild flowers
bring your own seeds to add to the mix - California poppy welcome

Red Clay

Compost

Mixing bowls

You will need to bring

a container for taking your seed balls home - something like a small pizza box so that the seed balls won’t be stacked too high on top of each other, they will be fragile.

At the end of the day…

You will be able to take 1/3 of the seed balls home for your own use and experimentation
The other 2/3 will be used to populate a guerrilla garden site at 7th and Hemlock

A planting day will be arranged within three weeks of the workshop date.

There is a $5.00 fee for this event.
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Inspiration overload

As I mentioned last week, a guerrilla gardening group recently formed in Vancouver. We met last weekend, and I’ve been thinking about how to introduce the group to Heavy Petal readers. You see, there are just so many cool people involved! It’s inspiring and exciting.

First, there’s our founder and fearless leader, Oren, a landscape architect with a focus on urban ecological design.

There’s Al, who some of you might know from his blog Urban Wilderness but who is now blogging from Al’s Bokashi Blog about Bokashi composting (Al, I must find out more about this!).

There’s Ward, the “boy” behind cityfarmboy.com, a company promoting urban farming and related products and services.

Read it all…

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