Want to Build a Guerrilla Garden? This Crowdsourcing Platform Could HelpWendy Moore So you know of an open lot in your neighborhood that would be perfect for a community garden. You really, really want to build one, but you dont quite know how to pull it off. Lets be honestthe idea of pulling off a garden build can be pretty daunting. You need a lot of supplies, possibly some funds, and, ideally a bunch of people to helpunless you feel like devoting the next couple weekends to digging. Youve heard of barn raising, right? That old tradition of collective community action in which the whole community used to gather together to build a barn for their neighbor. At thrdPlace, a newly-launched local platform for social action, were bringing it back by tapping online community to drive on-the-ground action. So, think barn raising and replace it with community gardens, mural creation, or art pop-ups. We help get the word out and recruit people to get involved by sharing the story of your project through the social networks of each person who comes to your project page and clicks to support your project. What does this look like in real time? This past weekend we helped the Social Justice Learning Institute, a local Los Angeles nonprofit dedicated to improving the education, health, and well being of youth and communities of color by empowering them to enact social change through research, training, and community mobilization, to organize and execute 10 backyard gardens at South L.A. homes as part of their 10 Homes10 Seeds initiative. Woody Moore is the vice president of marketing at thrdPlace. This article originally appeared at Good.Is 