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In 1973 Liz Christy, a Lower East Side artist, gathered her friends and neighbors together to clean out a vacant lot on the corner of Bowery and Houston Streets. Calling themselves the Green Guerillas, these visionaries created a vibrant community garden and sparked the modern community gardening movement in New York City. The Green Guerillas tapped the time, talent, and energy of their members. They took on projects as varied and interesting as the city itself they threw seed “greenaids” over the fences of vacant lots, installed window boxes, planted flowers in tree pits – and helped people transform cityowned vacant lots into community gardens that serve as botanic gardens, vest pocket parks, urban farms, and as expressions of art, ecology, and culture. More than three decades later, Green Guerillas is a vital 501c3 nonprofit organization, and there are 600 community gardens with a whole new host of challenges.

Website: http://www.greenguerillas.org/