Wednesday, January 02, 2013

Video Wednesday: Victory Gardens 1941




A family in Maryland decides to grow a Victory Garden. The film shows each step necessary from planning to harvest. The entire family takes part as two successive planting are done in Spring and Summer.

3 comments:

  1. Interesting! Ooh, look at that pesticide dust the kid is applying at 14:15!

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  2. Very informative and helpful. Thanks for writing it.

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  3. Katie - I was looking at that too and wondering exactly what it was he was using.
    What I like was the realistic depiction and that there was not a "Disney-fication" of the gardening. I also recognize that clay soil!
    I'm guessing that this was in Frederick or maybe around Hagerstown. Would be neat to talk to any surviving family members.

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