Guerrilla gardening is the act of gardening – raising food, plants, or flowers – on land that gardeners do not have the legal right to cultivate, such as abandoned sites, neglected public spaces, or p
Guerrilla gardening on a Los Angeles street
Guerrilla gardeners planting vegetables on previously empty space in downtown Calgary, Alberta, Canada
"Art at the Park" at Guerrilla Park in Welland, Ontario in 2015
Adam Purple's urban garden on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1984
The Vacant Lot of Cabbages was an art intervention by artist Barry Thomas in Wellington, New Zealand. On 4 January 1978, Thomas planted 150 cabbage seedlings spelling the word "CABBAGE" on an empty si
Thomas plants the first of 150 cabbage seedlings after giving a speech about how this land had not seen food crops for well over a century. Photo, Justin Keen
Facsimile of Thomas' original sketch for the Vacant lot of Cabbages made while convalescing from an operation in hospital in late 1977.
Wellington City Council Memo ordering the clearance of the site, "but the cabbage patch is probably harmless and can, I think, remain for a while at least." WCC archives
People begin arriving for the Last Roxy Show including the drought horses that towed the Tree cottage. Dame Gaylene Preston can be seen taking her polaroid photos. Thomas Photo.