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Although the initial seed bombing has passed, the value of urban agriculture and green space (both in planned and celebratory, spontaneous actions) is something to keep mapping. From the mycology of Central Park to wild flowers of Bed-Stuy, I'd like to group these acts of ground-up horticulture as comprising the City's "Low Line" - or DIY, activist, performative plantings and mappings that contrast the new Chelsea High Line. We will be playing with "Low Line" planting typologies and interventions as part of Eyebeam's Digital Day Camp in July! More soon!

21st Century Plowshare organized the planting of wildflower seeds on abandoned soil in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bed Stuy this April.

"By early summer, there should be so many wildflowers growing in the untended treepits, vacant lots, half-built developments and other tiny scraps of neglected soil in Bed Stuy that the whole neighborhood effectively turns into a meadow. The profusion of wildflowers will probably be relentless and visually unifying, and this relentless unity of wildflowers will probably make anyone walking down the street feel really good."