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I love, love, love this idea……I feel so behind. This is the first I’ve heard of these amazing vending machines full of seedbombs. What is a seedbomb you ask? They are little balls of seeds,  you can toss into an ugly, vacant lot so new plants will grow.

More from the Green Aid site:

“Made from a mixture of clay, compost, and seeds, “seedbombs” are becoming an increasingly popular means combating the many forgotten grey spaces we encounter everyday-from sidewalk cracks to vacant lots and parking medians. They can be thrown anonymously into these derelict urban sites to temporarily reclaim and transform them into places worth looking at and caring for. The Greenaid dispensary simply makes these guerilla gardening efforts more accessible to all by appropriating the existing distribution system of the quarter operated candy machine. Using just the loose coins in your pocket, you can make a small but meaningful contribution to the beautification of your city!

It’s fun, profitable, educational, sustainable, and interactive. Greenaid is equally an interactive public awareness campaign, a lucrative fundraising tool, and a beacon for small scale grass roots action that engages directly yet casually with local residents to both reveal and remedy issues of spatial inequity in their community.

Whether you’re a business owner, educator, or just a concerned citizen we’d like to work with you to get Greenaid in your community. You can purchase or rent a machine (or two, or ten…) directly from us and we will develop a seed mix as well as a strategic neighborhood intervention plan in response to the unique ecologies of your area. You then simply place the machine at your local bar, business, school, park, or anywhere that you think it can have the most impact. We will then supply you with all the seedbombs you need to support the continued success of the initiative.”

Watch this video to learn more about the design.

Click this map to find out if there’s a Green Aid Seedbomb vending machine near you:

You can even buy seed bombs at anthropologie now :

“Toss these gumball-sized seed-and-soil pods out into your garden – no need to even dig a hole – and they’ll eventually bombard your yard with a bee, butterfly and bird-friendly wildflower mixture specific to the United States region of your choice. By Cincinnati design studio VisuaLingual.Set of five seed bombs

• Soil, flower seeds, muslin
• 4.5″H, 3″W
• Handmade in USA

West Coast: includes cornflower, Shasta daisy, farewell-to-spring, garland chrysanthemum, Sweet William, mountain phlox and California poppy
East Coast: includes baby blue eyes, baby’s breath, blue flax, dame’s rocket, black eyed Susan, gloriosa daisy and coreopsis
Mid-West: includes forget-me-not, prairie aster, wild larkspur, purple coneflower and rose mallow.”

I prefer the vending machine. Fan Greenaid on Facebook here.

*Photos from Greenaid and Anthroplogie.com