In a great little Australian mag called Dumbo Feather, pass it on, there's an article about a radical gardener called David Duval Smith, whose guerrilla gardening strategies, I stole in order to save the world.

He starts by saying "Plants seem to be the answer to everything" - so I knew I was on the right track - "they clean the air, they give you food, they create medicine, and the insects and birds are happy." I looked at my depressed cacti and marvelled that a Superhero had been living in my studio all this time... amazing.

He then goes on to say, that providing free food is the most punk thing you can do. If you can generate free food plants you can conquer world hunger. Which, made me think... why simply save the world, when you can save the human race as well. So we up-ed the dare!!!!!!

That night in the studio we set about making Masanobu Fukouka's seed balls - clay balls mixed with different vegetable seeds and manure. And just a note they are ugly looking things - nothing aesthetically beautiful about them at all, very similar to clunky 70's pottery. But according to the article, the clay means that birds cant eat them and the seeds can't rot because they're protected, so when the conditions are right the seeds break out of the clay, you end up with random eco systems of food plants. They are also perfect guerrilla gardening materials cause you don't need a watering can or spade - you just toss them.

So, under the cloak of darkness and after several beers we took to the streets to claim back the earth for the sake of all humanity and the planet. We stealthily tossed and planted our seed balls in any bare bit of earth we could find in the city. We walked a path in a 2 blocks radius around the studio, believing that this ring of seed balls would be the tiny ripple effect that changes the world. Soon they will sprout into lovely organic pumpkins and beans and herbs and the earth we breathe a sigh of relief and the people heading into the offices and shops will rejoice at the sight of free food, and they will go forth and spread the good news seeds.

- Hannah Bertram, 2008