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Thursday, January 2, 2025

Victory Gardens and Self-Sufficiency

With the advent of newer gardening and farming techniques such as Permaculture, aquaponics, vertical growing, food forests, no-till raised beds, the One-Straw Revolution, regenerative agriculture, cheap greenhouses, edible perennials, perennial grains, and more, we could once again wean ourselves away from the teat of Big Ag and Big Guv:


In March 1917, the National War Garden Commission encouraged private citizens to ‘sow the seeds of victory’ and grow produce to feed people at home and abroad. School grounds, vacant lots, and backyards were transformed into bountiful gardens, which became known as ‘victory gardens.’” 


https://historyfacts.com/us-history/fact/wwii-victory-gardens-40-percent/ 


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