Garden Warriors of 'Yesteryear'
 
 
We are building on the ideas and work of past generations. Photos from the Library of Congress, Washington and one from the Canadian Archives, Ottawa.
 
   


Uncle Sam says - garden to cut food costs. 1917
Garden plots, Consolidated School, Guelph, Ontario, Canada 1908
Thriving Victory Garden, not on an island, but in a London bomb crater. WW2
Sunday morning finds the neighbours getting together to build a VictoryGarden.
Professor Nelson finds time to give Girl Scouts some pointers in transplanting.
C & NW RR, railroad workers cultivating a little Victory Garden. WW2
Helping Hoover in our U.S. school garden. 1919
Buying seed for the Victory Garden. WW2
Woman with tools. Victory Gardening in the Northwest section. WW2
Children's school Victory Gardens on First Avenue between 35th and 36th NY. WW2
Some victory gardeners showing their fine vegetables. WW2
Children's school Victory Gardens on First Avenue between 35th and 36th NY. WW2
Victory gardening at Forest Hills, Queens. New York. WW2
Grow it yourself : Plan a farm garden now. WW2
Victory gardening on the Charles Schwab estate. New York. WW2
Victory gardening at Forest Hills, Queens. New York. WW2
Victory gardening at Forest Hills, Queens. New York. WW2
The slope between these homes is planted in small Victory Gardens. WW2
A Liberty Garden, approximately one block square, Polk St., Chicago. WW1
Join the United States School Garden Army. 1918
Women from Gates Rubber Company tend to a war garden plot. 1914