victory gardens

Victory Gardens

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Author
KATHY SWENSON
Do It Green! Magazine
Tucked away in South Minneapolis is one of just two Victory Gardens nationwide still in active use. The gardens at Dowling School in Minneapolis and the Fenway Victory Garden in Boston are the only two remaining gardens left of the approximately 20 million nationwide in use during World War II. Minneapolis alone had more than 130,000 gardens during the war.

Victory Gardens began in 1942 as a nationwide effort to encourage home gardens.

Footnotes/Endnotes

ON THE WEB!

Dowling Community Gardens, dowlingcommunitygarden.org

commgardens.meetup.com
/cities/us/mn/minneapolis/

University of MN,
extension.umn.edu
/topics.html?topic=5

Garden Works, gardenworksmn.org

Land stewardship project,
landstewardshipproject.org/csa.html

Read Up!

Kitchen Gardening in America: A History, by David M. Tucker, Iowa State University Press, 1993

Act Locally!

Gardening Resource Groups,
nextstep.state.mn.us
/res_detail.cfm?id=826

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