Bloggers! Help Spread the Victory Garden Meme

          Why America Needs a Victory Garden Revival

With rising concerns about crucial issues such as food safety and fuel security, now is the time to tap our patriotic gardening heritage to create a sustainable future. 

A new national Victory Garden initiative will help us collectively:

      • ensure our food security, quality and safety
      • decrease our dependence on foreign oil by reducing food transport costs
      • foster a sense of community while nurturing self-reliance in ourselves and our children 
      • create a powerful, transformative & shared sense of purpose that can ignite even more bipartisan civic action on the above matters
      • illustrate to our children how history provides us with inspiration to overcome adversity 
      • and more...plus, gardening is fun!
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A bipartisan National Victory Garden Revival wouldn't necessarily require spending money or creating new governmental offices or red tape...it's largely a matter of framing a thoughtful, energizing discussion about patriotic self-reliance that can be undertaken anywhere, in both "red" and "blue" states...it's about reembracing our sense of duty.


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Victory Gardens can be planted in all kinds of settings--
home, residential and business. 
The options are only limited by your imagination.

    Victory Gardens, Past & Present

    During WWI & WWII, Americans took shovels and trowels in hand to ensure food quality and reduce transportation costs through a national gardening movement. Initially called "war gardens" or "liberty gardens," the term "Victory Garden" was eventually settled upon and caught hold in popular imagination. The notion, coupled with evocative patriotic artwork commissioned by the government, proved highly motivating. Reports suggest that, by the mid-1940s, there were more than 20 million home gardeners whose plots yielded 40% of the nation's produce.

    Imagine if we did that again. Right now.

    As it happens, a quick web search will reveal that an informal grassroots Victory Garden revival movement is already underway. Bloggers and others have been calling for the revival for at least a couple of years. There's also mounting evidence to suggest a rise in home gardening in general. Fortunately, the mainstream media has begun to pick up on these trends, particularly as our struggling economy forces people to look once more to their own yards as an affordable food resource. Meanwhile, many communities have recommitted recently to educating their citizenry on how to grow produce at home or in community plots. (There's even a new Civic Center Victory Garden on view during Summer 2008 in San Francisco!)

    These developments, while laudable, are only a start. To truly see this movement reach fruition, we need involvement at every level in every American community.

    That's why we need you to join the Victory Garden revival now to help spread the word and encourage our government officials to endorse these initiatives and promote them further to the rest of our citizenry.