Broderick of Federal District Court ruled that the demolition could take place. The Storefront for Art and Architecture created a group exhibition in 1984 to present alternative designs that would encompass the Garden of Eden into the public housing initiative. In the early 1980s, the city planned to create low-income housing, but there was opposition from neighborhood activists and supporters. He regularly bicycled to Central Park to collect horse manure to use as fertilizer. By the end, it was 15,000 square feet featuring a wide range of produce, including corn, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, asparagus, black raspberries, strawberries, and 45 trees including eight black walnuts. As buildings were torn down on either side, Purple would add new rings to the garden, allowing it to grow. The garden was designed around concentric circles with a yin-yang symbol in the center. The garden was ready to be planted in the spring of 1975. Modern machinery was considered ' counter-revolutionary.' He would haul manure from the horse-drawn carriages around Central Park and created a highly fertile topsoil. The process of clearing the lot took some time since the couple would only use hand tools.

A building was razed in 1973 on Eldridge Street behind Purple's apartment, and he decided to plant something with his companion, Eve. The garden began when the city and the neighborhood were blighted with urban decay. Purple's 'Garden of Eden', built by him single-handedly over five years starting in 1975, was a well-known open, community garden on Forsyth Street in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Accounts of his eldest children published in two parts in The Villager in January 2016 detailed years of abuse, in particular sexual abuse, by their father. Wilkie was convicted of child molestation in Australia and deported in the late 1960s or early 1970s. He moved to the Haight-Ashbury area of San Francisco, California. The family lived in Kurrajong Heights, near Sydney. Wilkie worked as an English and literature teacher. They traveled on the Orsova, docking in New South Wales after a three-month voyage. In 1964, Wilkie and his wife, Romola, and their 'blended family' of four girls emigrated to Australia, by boat. A later partner, known as 'Eve', gave birth to a girl, Nova Dawn. His second wife, Romola, had two daughters, Dorothy and Diane. With his first wife, Ann, he had two daughters, Jenean and Lenore. He had at least four biological children and two stepchildren. Making his way east, he was a reporter for The York Gazette and Daily in York, Pennsylvania, eventually ending up in New York City in 1968. He taught at high schools and junior colleges in California and South Dakota. Army and graduated with a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri. In 1945, Richard was trying to put out a fire when he was electrocuted and died. Early life īorn in Independence, Missouri, to Richard and Juanita Wilkie as the middle child of seven, his father was a machinist, carpenter and blacksmith while Juanita was a seamstress, gardener and bookkeeper. His birth name was David Lloyd Wilkie, although he went by many others, including 'Rev. Adam Purple (born David Lloyd Wilkie Novem– September 14, 2015) was an American activist and urban Edenist or ' Guerrilla Gardener' famous in New York City for his 'Garden of Eden'.

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