The Victory Garden

 

Have you ever heard of it? It’s not some champion on an exclusive gardening festival or anything like that. Usually the older people will easier to recall this project name. For those of you to young to remember Victory Gardens they were called war garden and food gardens for defense during WWI & WWII and they were planted with vegetables, fruit and herbs at private residences in the US, Canada and UK to reduce the pressure on the public food supply caused by the war effort. They not only, indirectly, aided their war effort, they were a great civil morale booster and gardeners made victory gardens part of daily life on the home front of each country.

Maybe you are wondering if this old age projects are convenient to be implemented in this era. Let’s think of advantage from building this kind of project on these days. You will have better fresh produce. You will have outside activity. You will have a family project. You will be teaching your children something. You will be having quality time with your family. You will have exercise. You will have remade a connection with the planet and mother earth. You may or may not be reducing your food budget, but your food will taste better. You may even learn how to do other things such as canning or preserving food.

From every point of view, this project can only bring goodness, isn’t it? It will be a big good step to reach a better progress in your life. If you decide to plant a victory garden remember that a space of 5 ft. by 20 ft will produce enough produce for one person, ergo should there be 4 in your family you will need reproduce that space 4 times. Plant veggies and fruits those are able to grow in your zone. You do not need a lot of equipment. If possible, try to do some research. Make your garden organic. Do not use pesticides. Get other friends and family members involved should you have a big enough space to do some like a community victory garden in.

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