They have ‘community gardens’ in Anchorage.
Most sit unused - the “homeless” (squatters) kept stealing the food, so folks stopped using them.
Worse than rabbits or deer....
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Comrades!
Our comrades in the government are trying very hard to keep the supermarkets stocked.
Unfortunately, our Comrades in China have had a tough year and they need food more than you do.....or they will quit sending the Democrats money.
Smaller portions are good for you!
Meat gives you gas!
Skip three meals a day to help the Party....the Democrat Party.
We grew corn, tomatoes, carrots, radishes, honey dew melons, and peas--maybe some other things.
We also had chickens, but no one--even my father--wouldn't eat them because they became pets. We had raised them from chicks. One was named Mary though I could never tell them apart.
My father accidentally killed one; so he cooked it, but everyone sat around the table unable to touch it as though it were the family dog. I thought it might be Mary.
My parents also planted flowers, though they always had.
Victory over what? Looming shortages?
Walmart doesn’t list seeds on their site. But then they don’t list a lot of items. Their seed packets used to be 10-25 cents.
Lowes’ prices start at about $2.
You can use the seeds from your grocery produce such as dried beans, tomatoes, melons, potatoes, garlic, onions and peppers.
Food wasn't the only thing grown in victory gardens.
Sweet Marijuana Brown--The Barney Bigard Sextet (1945)
When I was growing up we all lived off these gardens. It was just common in our part of North Carolina.
We were poor, but boy we ate good. And we traded with others too. And people would let you just come and pick their extras.
I’ve tried to duplicate that with my family. We grow, freeze and can everything... My kids hate anything store bought. It just doesn’t have the same taste.
I wish people would adopt victory gardens now. It’s a smart way of living.
We always had a backyard garden, growing up outside of Cleveland, but then, everything west of Cleveland was mostly farmland anyway. Really getting back to their roots. LOL.
My father grew up in WWII Britain, every single family on his street lost somebody from the war, more from starvation, malnutrition, etc than from fighting.
They had an Anderson bomb shelter in the back and a huge garden, his mother made lots of soups that stretched their supplies. Some shelters survived and are used as tool sheds.
Victory.
Sadly, most people do not like vegetables, especially fresh and uncooked.
If they grew a garden they would not even bother to harvest.
Really weird.
Remember to wear a mask in the garden so you don’t kill the plants
I believe Winston was able to view the Victory Gardens from his window in Victory Mansions, no?
Very few homesteads have survived intact as to their original boundaries as the climate is too dry for farming and larger land parcels are needed for ranching.
The only sizable farming compatible land is coincidentally about a mile away from that homestead and my great grandfather ended up owning a sizable portion of the rich bottomland adjacent to a small creek that joins into a larger creek just downstream of that farm's location.
The WPA took that good land via eminent domain in the 1930s to build a 600 acre lake and water works for the town water supply. So, the only good farm land within 20 miles has been under water since the lake filled.
Now, there is only a narrow strip of fertile land remaining along the side of the large creek and was really only useful for sustenance farming, nothing commercial.
There is one narrow strip of this creek bottoms amounting to 2 or 3 acres that lays between the railroad track and the large creek. It's been a community garden I think since the Territory years. Any town resident can get a plot assigned in the garden and my grand parents usually had a garden there. The community garden is still going strong.
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‘Victory Gardens,’ once a wartime program to produce local food, growing again in Northeast Ohio
News5 Cleveland ^ | May 3, 2021 | Caroline Sweeny
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