Workshops
(SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA)
The Baker Creek Expo was phenomenal! Subversive Gardener presented on designing solutions for urban gardens. We saw thousands of exciting new seeds that we are desperate to try out, and were equally as excited to share some of our designs. We can’t express enough how grateful we are to have our partnership with BakerCreek Heirloom Seeds.
(BROOKLYN, NEW YORK)
It is 8:00AM and The Subversive Gardener along with 16 other gardeners from CreativeMornings have already ventured outside for a guerrilla gardening mission. Our mission today includes discussing guerrilla gardening practices; what it is and how to do it, and then putting that information into action. We also talked about the story of the plants, how we grew hundreds of them from seed, distributed them around the city and how some of them ended up here at our tomato triangle.
After a little background information, it was time to help our tomatoes out. We grabbed some dowels and twist ties and began to stake them up. The tomatoes have grown significantly and are getting heavy.
As we finish to string up the tomatoes we head over to a table and we talk about seed pills and teach our “students” how to make them. This leads to a discussion about which spaces might need a little more attention. We also get a chance to learn more about the wonderful people who have joined us so early in the morning are.
Many of them happen to be creatives who choose to come on meet ups and learn new skills, everything from cooking new foods, playing group games in central locations of New York or as they are doing this morning guerrilla gardening field trip. It is always wonderful to see what brings so many different people from different places together. Some were gardening enthusiasts and others were learning gardening fundamentals for the first time (like what a tomato plant looked like). Whatever the reason for coming and helping out we are glad that we got to spend this sunny morning completing another successful guerrilla gardening mission!
(BROOKLYN, NEW YORK)
Did you know that bees play a crucial role in our environment? As one of the top pollinators they secure our access to foods throughout the world and they are the only insect that makes food that we can eat! The Subversive Gardener is super grateful to bees for all their hard work that keeps us alive, so we were looking for an excuse to celebrate these amazing creatures! As it turns out May 20th is World Bee Day, and what better way to celebrate than to be out and about in a garden!
On this sunny Monday morning, we had over 75 students from a nearby elementary school venture into the Scholes Street Children’s Garden to learn about pollinators. The classes discussed heirlooms and then closely observed tomatoes growing in the garden. The kids will get a chance to see these beauties grow their fruit throughout the summer and into the fall!
Finally, the kids got to make some secret gardening tools AKA seed pills to take home and do some spy gardening. These seed pills were filled with Baker Creek wildflower seeds and will be especially beneficial for bees and other pollinators when they are planted throughout the city! Overall, we were so excited to be out in the warm weather and to have a chance to say thanks to our little fuzzy yellow and black friends! Remember to keep buzzin’!
(BOXPARK, LONDON)
The Subversive Gardener Pop-Up @BOXPARK is a multi-media installation inside a shipping container filled with plants, customised wallpaper a bespoke scent and accompanied by an original score by David Gardener, a member of the South London band Dems. The Subversive Gardener Pop Up @BOXPARK debuted a new line of accessories designed by Vanessa Harden that function as guerrilla gardening tools. Brass nail dusters are a new spin on knuckle dusters and function as a rake, spade, or shovel while a 24 carat gold-plated grillz (teeth) shoots seeds at a distance. These are some of the pieces you’ll find at the pop-up.
The container also contains the Subversive Gardener's Lab, offering daily guerrilla gardening workshops to the public that teach seed saving techniques and bespoke tools making skills.
Members of the public will also be invited to learn about seed pills, seed bombs and other DIY gardening products. Workshops and talks from guerrilla gardeners and environmental activists were scheduled throughout the Subversive Gardener Pop Up @BOXPARK.
(BRISTOL, UK)
Speaking and workshopping about Subversive Gardener for the This Happened series at the Secret Garden Party in Bristol.
(VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM, LONDON)
Speaking about the newest subversive gardening products that are based on existing artefacts in the V&A permeant collection.
(LONDON, UK)
