Watch a recent Reuters video report about Valcent. Catch the comment about the U.S. government buying Verticrop systems for overseas military bases. Do we make anything any more?
Back around the time that I was a Victory Gardener, I remember a house foundation being dug across the street. The "machine" was a horse pulling a bucket scoop. How's that for a front end loader? Incidentally, I would wake up to the clip-clop sound of the Sheffield Farms horse-drawn milk wagon delivering milk (in bottles with cream on top).
I was also part of what is called "stoop labor" during WWII when vegetables needed picking at local truck farms. There were lots of them on Long Island back then. And then along came Bill Levitt. Goodbye potato fields. Hello returning vets, affordable housing and lots of kids (aka boomers).
Based on what I read it appears that many of them still have a nostalgic love for Victory Gardens. That'll really help us in the present day competitive world economy.
in the 20th century, the US had victory gardens.
in the 21st, we'll have guerilla gardens.
http://www.guerrillagardening.org/
Posted by: littlefish | March 12, 2010 at 03:18 PM