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Volunteers at a local public orchard and garden are devastated after one of the murals made for the garden by a local artist was vandalized this weekend.
By resisting commodification, gardening becomes an effective form of protest. And if gardening is a form of protest, guerilla gardening is even more so. Salt Lake City’s Og-woi People’s Orchard and Garden practices guerilla gardening a form of gardening in which the gardeners do not have legal rights to cultivate the land. Guerilla.
City leaders had told volunteers at the Og-woi People’s Orchard and Garden that they would have to remove the mural and temporarily cease operations if they wanted to formalize the site.