• 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

To Live in This World

As spring arrives, I am feeling the fullness of the season upon me, upon all of us, this group of core people who have come to be the 20-30 people, in addition to the 100’s of other loose volunteers, that are working so hard for this mission. We have very high expectations… seeking to radically [...]

Interesting info about dairy farming.

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 [...]

One Letter to the Shorewood Trustees about Front yard veggies

Dear Trustees,
What is Shorewood, and what is going to be?  These, no doubt, are questions that the Village Trustees must constantly grapple with.  While the sweep of history may always have the final word and while demographics and economics will almost always trump policy, the trustees are, as the name implies, entrusted with shepherding the village through [...]