Friday, August 29, 2008

Thing #7 that I love about Geneva - The Train Track Gardens

It's been a couple of years now that, on a daily bike ride that I used to take, I noticed that some enterprising souls had jumped a fence next to an apartment complex and planted a garden on an incline above the train tracks leading to the airport.

You can't see it so well in this photo, but just under the trees and to the right of the grey pole, there is a thriving garden containing flowers, veggies and fruits.

I am immersed in a mania around guerrilla gardening and the general use of unloved urban spaces for growing plants, and in particular, edible ones.

Myself, I am biding my time and preparing myself for the day I will don my militant gardening clogs and take up the urban gardeners arms of spades and seed packets to reclaim a tiny patch of forsaken public space.

Long live the revolution! The people must have a garden! Stay tuned!

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