Community Gardens

[Roy N.]

While not exactly Guerilla Gardeners - they ask permission before planting - there is a local community garden group which relies on residents to donate a plot in their yard for growing goodness during the summer. In exchange, the "lord of the land" shares in the spoils of the landless serfs who toil the gardens ... it's the seigneurial system all over again.

Last year, I was approached by this local group asking if they could put a garden in the side yard of my personal residence ... I guess the appearance of my lawn made it self evident no herbicides/pesticides were *not* in use :) Given we were (and still are) under renovation, the timing was not ideal to have heavy machinery and asparagus share the same space.

This year, I am thinking about letting them have access to the back yard at two of our rental properties. I floated the idea past our tenants and they think it is wonderful ... two of them have since become involved with this band of landless gardeners.

Do any other landlords here allow community garden groups to use their property for vegetable patches?