Report from Laeken

Kaybxl sends us this: « Unfortunately a lot of the growing sunflowers where ripped or cut off, especially the ones under the trees and the ones I planted in the grass. Amazingly most of the seeds I planted in cracks in the pavement near buildings have survived. Maybe it's because of the "special" manure you can see on the last pic. »




Thanks kay :)

It's growing...

Tof called me the other day and said: « I'm around Louise and lots of sunflowers are growing here. Come and have a look ».

Then I saw this message from Richard:


So this afternoon, I had to go take some photos of the Brussels' sunflowers growing.

Have any photos of your plantation? Send it to us. We'll post it here.

Brussels farmer on France-Inter

Hello visitors from the « crumble » show. Here's the news that brought you here:

« "Girasol" qui intervient au téléphone au cours de l'émission, est membre de la guerilla des Brussel Farmer. Mouvement informel et poétique qui plante pour la deuxième année consécutive des tournesols dans les villes pour les rendre plus colorées et végétales !
Il existe un livre en anglais sur le sujet : On guerilla gardening, a handbook for gardening without boundaries édité chez Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (mai 2008). »

If I may correct. It's our fourth year of plantation. Check this blog for full info on our activites. And join us for the next round. (en français aussi.)

Téléchargez l'enregistrement de l'émission.

Excursus: Twitter, Brussels website and Parks

Well, sorry for the off-topic, but I had to mention it.
Brussels has an official website. Yes, so what. Even Montcuq has one. But the City of Brussels has also a Twitter account. What?. Yes, you read it right. You can get tweets from your European capital if you'd like. I thought my city officials didn't know anything about technologies and the net. Guess I'm wrong.

But why am I mentioning this here? Because their last tweet says this:



So I had to check. Here is the link.
« Brussels is one of the most green European capitals. A multitude of parks and gardens are present in the city. Each of them possess their own history, organization, sculptures, architecture, trees,... They are an oasis of calm in the pounding heart of Brussels. »
Glad to know that. ;)

One (major) critic though. For a European capital, have pages on the website that says: « This page has been automatically translated from French into English by a translation software. Automatic translations are not as accurate as translations made by professional human translators. Nevertheless these pages can help you understand information published by the City of Brussels. »

Wooo. Baaad ;)

Photos du 1er mai 2009, Bruxelles (par L@u)

L@u nous envoie ses photos de la Journée Internationale de la Guerilla Tournesol:




Please share your picture with us. Send us a mail @ brusselsfarmer@gmail.com

Premières photos du 1er mai @ Bruxelles

Equinimod nous envoie une première série de photos prises lors du rendez-vous à la place Poelaert à Bruxelles.

Merci aux nombreux planteurs présents. On a apprécié cette rencontre et cet échange. Faites nous part de vos impressions. Racontez-nous comment s'est passé votre plantation et envoyez nous vos photos à brusselsfarmer@gmail.com

Journée Internationale de la Guerilla Tournesol - Les différents rendez-vous

Mise-à-jour: ajout de nouveaux lieux.

Le 1er Mai 2009

Bruxelles: place Poelaert à 13h.

Laeken: quartier Bockstael (contacter brusselsfarmer@gmail.com pour les rejoindre)

Liège: place Saint-Lambert à 13h (avec qqch de jaune sur soi pour se reconnaître et des graines de tournesol pour ceux qui en ont.)

Gent: signalez-vous sur le forum de Guerrilla Gardening

Londres, Royaume Uni: North Roundabout Elephant & Castle à 20h.

Glasgow, Royaume Uni: à 18h (info)

Amsterdam, Pays-Bas: new Van Gogh Building, museumplein à 21h.

Haarlem, Pays-Bas: à 12h. Signalez-vous ici

Bienne, Suisse: à 20h (info)

Hradec Králové, République Tcheque: Žižkovy sady 500 03 (info)

Austin, Texas, USA: Lamar Street Pedestrian Bridge à 21h.(plus d'info)

Los Angeles, California, USA: dans 25 lieux différents, à 20h. (info)

Bethlehem, Pennsylvanie, USA:
North by Northwest Neighborhoods and Greater Bethlehem à 20h (info)

Le 2 Mai 2009

Toulouse, France: place du Capitole à 14h (le blog)

Lausanne, Suisse: parc de Montbenon (en face de l'entrée du casino) à 14h.

San Francisco, Californie, USA: au coin de Pennsylvania et Mariposa, Potrero Hill, en face de Center Hardware. (plus d'info)