But Does It Come with Guerrilla Maintenance?

Steve Hall

Apr. 01, 2008
1 min read

You’ve heard of the sometimes-subversive art of guerrilla marketing. But it’s got nothin’ on guerrilla gardening: One group’s valiant attempts to improve public landscapes with illicit cultivation.

Guerrilla Communication says guerrilla gardening — gardening on someone else’s land without permission — has been going on for centuries. Eco aesthetes are encouraged to take up a spade and alight upon the nearest eyesore with sunflowers at the ready.

Nice. Very Green Samaritan. Now what I could use is a super-awesome guerrilla room-cleaner.

Steve Hall

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