Bring Back the Victory Garden

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One of my mother's favorite pictures was a black and white photo that showed her mother kneeling in a garden holding a huge head of lettuce. The picture was taken in 1943 or 1944 and showed my beaming grandmother tending to her victory garden.

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Was having lunch with our City Administrator this week and he mentioned that the City was ready to seed the lot where the former Middle School (Junior High) once stood. Seems that it will become "park area" until it can be sold or offered for some sort of development.

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Later in the day I was visiting with someone from the Minnesota Military Family Assistance Center. He had told me about recently attending an auction where he had bought a box of old WWII military posters. He was especially proud of one that promoted the creation and maintenance of Victory Gardens. A 1940's program to support the war effort.

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In this day and age that focuses upon "Going Green" the thought had occurred to me that couldn't that former Middle School site be tentatively used for Victory Gardens?

The one square block site could be parcelled into multiple garden sites and offered to groups, organizations, families, or individuals to turn them into our very own Victory Gardens. Plots could range in size from say 10' X 10' to possibly as large as 20' X 100'. Someone with greater Gardening experience then me would have a better idea on how to put this together.

While a green space park area in the interim sounds nice, a fully developed Victory Garden area seems to me to be even more appealing.

That's my opinion. What about yours?