While watching this public domain film from the 1940s on victory gardens, I happened to see a sign that one of the actors was nailing to a board outside of her garden area and it gave me an idea. I asked myself why we shouldn’t take a similar pledge in 2012 and when I [...]
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A minor catastrophe last night when I knocked over the window shelf that was playing nursery to all of our seedlings. Only three of the seedlings survived the carnage unscathed: sweet basil, common sage and my beloved mortgage lifter tomato. What that means is that I am now two weeks behind schedule in getting seeds [...]
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A Note from Michael: This was originally written in April of 2008. In response to the heavy impact of World War II on the U.S. economy, Americans were urged to grow a victory garden (also called a war garden) in 1943. The gardens were planted by about 20 million families and would eventually provide nearly [...]
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