Bring Back the Victory Garden
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A Call to Arms
Let’s bring back the Victory Garden. It’s a call to arms for both city & country girl alike. Our mothers & grandmothers fostered the ideas of sustainability, buying local & going gluten-free long before we did. They were on to something then. And the push to grow their own food & live a healthy, eco-friendly lifestyle supported by their own efforts is no less popular or important today.
A food poster from the U.S. Food Administration from 1917 encouraging these principles could easily appear today – over a hundred years later. During both World Wars, posters & pamphlets also asked women to dig in and grow victory gardens. This would help them feed their families and support the war effort.
While we are fortunate enough to not be engaged in a world war, there is still something victorious about gardening and having something to show for our efforts.
Reconnecting
In our modern age, we often seem disconnected from our food sources as well as the earth. A victory garden offers the opportunity to reconnect and live a healthier lifestyle – both through the growing of our own food as well as through the stress-relieving pastime of gardening itself.
Make It Your Own
A victory garden can be large or small. It’s whatever size and style that works best for you and the time you are able to invest in it. Raised Bed & Square Foot Gardening seem the most ideal for a victory garden as they maximize the plants grown in a small space. If you lack a backyard, there are still the options of container gardening on your porch or a mini victory garden in the form of herbs on your windowsill. And community gardens in urban locales are growing all over the country, in large and small cities alike. Many have plots available to rent by the season.
Use Vintage or Heirloom Seeds
There is also the trend of using only organic or non-GMO seeds when gardening and nothing seems more appropriate for a victory garden than vintage and heirloom seeds. Some great sources for heirloom seeds include Renee’s Garden, Baker Creek Seeds and Back to the Roots.
Regardless of how or where, though, I hope you’ll consider bringing back this lifestyle. Will you bring back the victory garden? Let me know in the comments below! And be sure to check out my related post on Land Girls which inspired a really beautiful stylized photo shoot. Happy Gardening!
