The River Church Community

For years I have heard about guerilla gardening.   The basic idea is you find a patch of land and sow seeds there.  The key is that it cannot be your land.  Hence, guerilla gardening.  Now my main problem with the practice is trespassing.  How do I sow seed on land not my own legally?  Or at least without getting caught.  Because of these questions I have not been a good guerilla.  

I have been a victim however.  Two weeks ago I discovered plants planted without permission in the community garden.  I have been guerilla gardened!  An unseen suspect had raided the garden, planted a melon plant, and vanished.  I had no suspects.  No leads.  

But then I caught him.  Well, really, his daughter snitched.  Their family already has a plot and he wanted to be able to garden too.  There was no more space—and so…he became a guerilla.   

The good news is that the community garden is expanding (a new pumpkin patch) and another larger plot for a River small group.  The bad news is that our new-found guerrilla’s “garden” was uprooted in the process.  The moral of the story is this: if you are going to guerrilla garden don’t tell anyone; and if you want a plot at the community garden, just ask—we have room.