• The Victory Garden Initiative promotes the use of our own backyards (and front yards and rooftops and patios) for the production of food. We are gardeners supporting other gardeners in their own paths towards a self-sufficient, sustainable, and healthy food supply. Through mentoring, modeling and outreach we aim to make Victory Gardening a way of life for everyone. Gardening is the new protest, the passive resistance of our time. Lay down, next to me, in front of this bulldozer. gretchenmead@hotmail.com

Rallying against Monsanto

Sign this petition.  Its important. Speak up.  Get involved. Spend your money wisely.  Grown your own.

Monthly Eat and Meet

Hello Greenhorns, 
This month’s Eat and Meet will be held in Bayview at Swee Sims House. 
802 E Lincoln, corner of Lincoln & Aldrich in Bayview. 
It’s about 3 blocks east of the store. 
Swee’s cell is 758-8562 
Gretchen’s cell is 333-2537 
We will be focusing on Bayviews involvement in the VGI.  If you come, 
surely we will put you to work. 
Agenda: 
Eat, [...]

Rooftop Farmer becomes Foreign Urban Ag Correspondent

Breaking news from The Victory Garden Initiative’s foreign
correspondent:

Europeans Have Adopted the Practice of Victory Gardening

While traveling in Croatia, your intrepid international victory
garden reporter has discovered European Victory Gardens. Apparently
they have heard the news and are following our brave leadership. It
appears that a number of local residents have actually taken to
planting vegetables, as well as fruit [...]

Last chance to get those crops in

Time to plant those last few crops that’ll send you into the late fall with a bounty.  Put the last of the bush beans in, the carrots, onion sets, beets, spinach, kale, collards, swiss chard, lettuce, peas and cabbage, broccoli, and cauliflower plants.  You may eek out a couple more weeks of planting the hardiest [...]

Shorewood Victory Gardening on NPR

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111721631
 
There will come a time, in the not too distant future, when the thought of an unwanted garden is absurd.