victory gardens

Remember Victory Gardens? Fight Climate Change in Your Own Garden

With food shortages predicted due to coronavirus disruption, great time to throw some tomatoes, beans, zucchini in the ground. These are some of the easiest vegetables to grow and what is more prolific than zucchini? Wartime Victory Gardens: “By 1944, nearly 20 million victory gardens  produced about 8 million tons of food.” Fight Climate Change …

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Mom’s Across America: Top 6 Reasons to Bring Back Victory Gardens

Growing your own helps climate change, ecosystem degradation, decline in human health  Mom’s Across America: Top 6 Reasons to Bring Back Victory Gardens Posted by Jessica Smith 21GS on February 18, 2020 Reprinted with permission from our friends at Grow Food Nation. by By Jessica Smith | January 15, 2019 In the mid-1940s the United …

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Remember Victory Gardens? Fight Climate Change in Your Own Garden

“Sustainable” has been coopted to greenwash bad practices. “Regenerative farming” : no chemicals, biodiversity, feeding and protecting soil (carbon farming). Green America website Fight Climate Change in Your Own Garden By Deonna Anderson, YES! Magazine 13 November 18 Your backyard could be the next front in the war against global warming. uring World War I, …

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