An experimental process of seeding a guerrilla garden and letting it take shape in our midst. These are some field notes and pictures taken as I go along on this journey.
How will this pan out under watchful eyes? Will this be a fruitful pursuit? Follow me as I share my journey and stories from the field where I convert a plot of underutilized green space into an edible garden! Read the series here, updated as I go along: Part I | Part II
Seed-saving 
Day 4; Germinated 
Day 7; week-old seedlings
Trellis I built for the plots with some bamboo poles and strings 
The garden – 3-weeks in, fully planted. The white dots are indicators of the corners of each plot.
Conducting a simple soil test. Most of the soil was sand, with a small amount of silt and clay. 
There was some attrition. Some plants which I thought would do well, like amaranth — a super hardy crop— were completely infested by pests. The green beans were decimated too. But the pest attacks were very specific to those plants, overall, most were left untouched. I figured it was nature’s way of calibrating itself.
Christopher has a strong passion in food. He has experienced the entire spectrum from farm-to-table, starting out by WWOOFing in Australia, working as an urban farmer and starting a dorm-room cafe in the last decade. He is a sustainable food systems consultant and is currently working on a rural development project in Nepal. He envisions a healthier, and more sustainable food system for all of us.
