Guerilla Gardening
Merging several definitions of "guerrilla" activity i've come up with this:
- "A member of a small independent group taking part in irregular activity, typically against larger regular forces and often without authorisation"
The military often adopt guerrilla tactics as it often results in victory and the business/political/academic worlds now often adopt guerrilla tactics as a way to experiment/take risks/make quicker decisions primarily because they're avoiding the need to seek permission! As a student it's important to try guerrilla tactics whilst young because some employers will pay higher salaries or bigger commissions on sales you achieve if you can demonstrate success in guerrilla tactics!
Guerrilla activity is often the result of a "bottom-up" swell of independent people fed up with the way things are and meeting resistance to change and deciding to change things anyway!
Guerrilla Gardening is the least offensive version of this activity and if you look around Plymouth School of Creative Arts you will see Avocado Trees (like the one pictured) cropping up. These were home grown by some of the students and will help improve the air quality and sense of wellbeing inside the building without the need to seek permission and raise money to install new mechanical systems to filter the air.
You can also plant seeds outside in the school garden or anywhere you see an empty uncared for patch of land!
