N°04 · Global
Seeds of resistance: the shared garden movement
From New York's Green Guerillas to the shared gardens of Paris, young city dwellers are growing their own green spaces.
In 1973, artist Liz Christy and a group of neighbours in New York began throwing "seed bombs" over fences into empty lots. Calling themselves the Green Guerillas, they turned an abandoned corner of the Lower East Side into a community garden — and gave the world the term guerrilla gardening.
The idea travelled. In Paris, the city launched its Main Verte charter in 2003 to support jardins partagés: small gardens run by residents' associations, open to neighbours, where people grow vegetables, flowers and friendships between buildings.
For many young people, gardening has become a quiet form of activism — learning plant names, sharing seeds and taking care of a patch of earth together. It is the same spirit that runs through Jeunesse: love for botany, and respect for the nature we share.
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