A transition town group that searches and manages vagrant urban zones that for some reason have been left to fallow.

We go around by bike and we scrutinize google.earth for local crypto-forests and other potential climax vegetational rejects. see: http://socialfiction.org/?tag=ttnomad

http://www.guerrillagardening.org/ is one inspiration with street-cred and currency but the real motivation for us is the rich field of Amazonian anthropology from classic ethnography to modern ethnobotany to future excavations of the lost garden cities of Xingu.

Our manifesto is called “Fight the Google-Jugend”, which is in art-academic peer-review right now but far from finished.

We will hook-up with the local TT people but the Nomad-principle is applicable everywhere and should appeal to a mindset that is open to less literal more psychogeographically informed vision of what a city can look after the great ecological, population and resource crash.

Nomadic people, contrary to popular misconception, do not roam free, tossing a coin at every turn to decide where to go next. The nomad instead follows cyclic paths. These paths are their 'home' for as long as the their trek reaffirms them as part of their collective heritage. Over time the nomad can create or amplify (actively, accidentally, serendipitously) useful resources along the trail, aka Nomadic Agriculture.

TT Nomad cultivates metaphors not gardens, we add pressure to self-willed ecosystems no matter how small. forest gardening is perhaps a misleading term; gardening is a buzz word, a artistic fashion that underestimates the skill and long term commitment to the land. For us digging holes, planting trees, controlled fire (well not really), leaving art and just being there are suitable strategies.

We have been reading about Colonel Fawcett's search for the City of Z in what is now Xingu Park. He went looking for a city that could not exist in the rainforest, TT Nomad goes looking for (and create) the forest that cannot exit in the city. An alternative name would be Transition Town -z (negative zee)