Cory Whitney
Some of my mates have a new flat in downtown Manhattan near the South Street Seaport Museum. I love that place. The view of the city is great - looking out from the balcony - but the view of the city looking down is rather dismal.
Manhattan's city blocks have these thin air shafts running through - a depressed early version of the shaft running through the Empire's Deathstar. - Looking down from the balcony at the little spots of soil in the shaft below I daydreamed of a small cryptoforest there.
Some of my mates have a new flat in downtown Manhattan near the South Street Seaport Museum. I love that place. The view of the city is great - looking out from the balcony - but the view of the city looking down is rather dismal.
Manhattan's city blocks have these thin air shafts running through - a depressed early version of the shaft running through the Empire's Deathstar. - Looking down from the balcony at the little spots of soil in the shaft below I daydreamed of a small cryptoforest there.
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| Photo 'Tenement Air Shaft Balcony' bv William Bode |
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A photo by New York photographer, John Albok
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| A photo of the bottom of an airshaft by PJ The Sprite in St. Paul |
I see a role for metropolitan guerilla gardening using seedballs. This could easily be done following the exemplary methodologies of the No Work Farming Master Masanobu Fukuoka as I have seen some farmers and activists doing in Iceland 1-2.
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| A photo of a seedball taken by Aravind Reddy Bangalore Bombing on Green Mission near Bengaluru |
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| More on how to make seedballs from the excellent book Freedom Gardens |
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| More radical seedball ideas from Seedballs R Us |
References
- Whitney, Cory W. “Conservation Ethnobotany in the North Atlantic.” Non-Wood News; NWFP Digest, 2011.
- Whitney, Cory William. “A Survey of Wild Collection and Cultivation of Indigenous Species in Iceland and the Faroe Islands.” University of Kassel, 2011.
