Community gardening
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A community garden is a piece of land gardened or cultivated by a group of people individually or collectively. Normally in community gardens, the land is divided into individual plots. Each individua
Strathcona Heights Community Garden in Ottawa, Canada
Published originally in 1945, the U.S. Crop Corps encourages people to start or volunteer in victory gardens.
Community garden in Chicago with clearly defined plots
A 20ft x 20ft community garden plot in Harrisonburg, Virginia
Victory garden
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Victory gardens, also called war gardens or food gardens for defense, were vegetable, fruit, and herb gardens planted at private residences and public parks in the United States, United Kingdom, Canad
Community gardening
…or workers' garden). The second wave of community garden development happened during the WWI and WWII; they were part of "Liberty Gardens" and "Victory Gardens" respectively. The most recent wave of community garden development happened in the 1970s during the OPEC crisis, results of grassroots movement in…
Eton schoolboys digging potatoes from a victory garden on the school's playing fields during World War I
WWI-era U.S. victory poster featuring Columbia sowing seeds
The British "Dig on for Victory" poster by Peter Fraser
A victory garden in a bomb crater in London during WWII