Guerilla Gardeners bringing beauty to Lansing

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Hello Beautiful by Lansing Area Guerilla Gardeners

Hello Beautiful by Lansing Area Guerilla Gardeners

Last week’s post about Lansing’s truck-eating bridge Big Penny was the most popular post of 2025 so far, but it may convey an overly aggressive image of our State Capital. Fortunately, I found the perfect antidote for Big Penny through Stupid Lansing, the folks who tipped me off to Big Penny: the Lansing Area Guerilla Gardeners!

WKAR explains that guerilla gardeners across the globe care for public or neglected land, often without formal permission:

(Shawn) Dyer and his friends adopted the Guerrilla Gardeners label in 2021, although they’ve been leading stealthy community cleanups and carrying out surprise acts of gardening for years. We sneak in, we garden, we make it look better and then we leave.” As Jana Nichol described it: “We sneak in, we garden, we make it look better and then we leave.”

Just love this – check out their work below & on their Facebook page!!

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The Ghostly Gardener of Redford Cemetery

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Redford Cemetery by Kim Scarborough

Redford Cemetery by Kim Scarborough

WFMK shares the spooky tale of The Gardener’s Grave at Redford Cemetery:

The grave is said to be immediately to the left of the entrance; if you stand in the vicinity long enough, the stench of death will reach you. This smell is followed by the appearance of the gardener, whose ghost will appear coming over the hill towards you. Be alert, because his apparition only lasts for a few seconds before he decides to disappear.

The Gardener is not the only ghost that makes its presence known here. The disembodied sobbing of a woman can be heard; but when trying to pinpoint the exact location, she can never be found…but the sound of the sobbing will continue. Apparitions, shadow people, and dark figures are seen in the surrounding forests, and the ground has been known to rumble and shake from time to time.

More about Redford Cemetery on their website.

Kim took this photo way back in 2005. See more in her Tombstones gallery on Flickr!

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