Time to put on your overalls.If you've been waiting for a good opportunity to start growing food, now's the time. If you already know how, it's time you started extra seedsso you can get them to friends, family, neighbors, and strangers. And it's time you start posting and otherwise sharing your grocery growing hacks with anyone interested. Right now, food shortages are largely a phantom of...
Revive the Victory GardenIn 1943, Americans planted over 20 million Victory Gardens, and the harvest accounted for nearly a third of all the vegetables consumed in the country that year. Emphasis was placed on making gardening a family or community effort -- not a drudgery, but a pastime...History of Food Gardening at the Whitehouse
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Last year CNBC ran a news story called "New Victory Gardens."It tells the story of how folks are "taking things into their own hands and backyards" by starting more and more gardens in 2008-- a year before, mind you, 2009 when the sale of home vegetable garden seeds jumped over 30% by some sources. According to the CNBC news report, there were 25 million households with home vegetable gardens.Now...