Building a Garden at a Community Centre serving immigrants
Building a Garden at a Community Centre serving Immigrants A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust. ~ Gertrude Jekyll . Victory gardens first appeared during World War I (1914–1918) when President Woodrow Wilson called on Americans to plant vegetable gardens so as to thwart the looming threat of food shortages. Droves of Americans took up the challenge as a civic and patriotic duty. Gardeners were encouraged to plant high-yielding multiple-harvest vegetables that took up little space in their gardens, such as tomatoes, peppers, squash, corn and herbs. This grassroots gardening effort was revived again during WWII and by May 1943, victory gardens supplied 40 percent of the produce in America. Fast forward to today. With the pandemic disrupting lives, gardening is one of the best ways to get exercise and fresh air with all the social distancing precautions. The glory of gardening: hands