About Me

 Hi! I’m Adriana Martinez. Anarchy in the Garden was borne while I was furiously soil blocking and sowing hundreds of seeds in my modest backyard. I has humming along to my favorite Circle Jerks song, Wild in the Streets, and a light bulb came on. There is nothing more punk rock than growing your own food.

I don’t like being told what to do or what to eat. Just ask my mom. Tomatoes at the local supermarket in December? I don’t think so. Those are hot house tomatoes, grown in a greenhouse, tasteless and with a hefty carbon footprint.

I’m a city girl with limited space. However I grow enough vegetables for an entire block in two-4′X8′ raised beds and a 10′X10′ community garden plot.

I’m a lifelong gardener turned horticulturist. I am also a certified Master Gardener, community garden founder and manager, and guerrilla gardener.

I travel in a pack with my husband Hector and our two rescue dogs Rocky Horror and Iggy Kilmister.

Have a story you would like me to write about or just have a question? Give me a holler at adriana@anarchyinthegarden.com

*picture by Lisa Callamaro*