Tag Archive for ‘victory garden’
WHO OWNS THESE TRADEMARKS?
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FREE OUR FOOD
“Growing food is one of the most dangerous occupations on this earth because you are in danger of becoming free. ” Jules Dervaes Now more than ever are we seeing that growing our own food not only has environmental but self-empowering implications. When take back our food we take back our lives. Our food security [...]
FLASH FROM THE PAST
Channel98Worldwide.com presents a classic presentation of a lost film about the original victory garden. The inspiration for the long running PBS TV Show, this film has not been seen for 50 years. There’s a new homegrown (organic) movement afoot. Check PTF’s homegrown social network site, Freedom Gardens. Share, connect with fellow food fighters who are [...]
FREEDOM GARDENS RETOOLED
Check out the new navigation bar! Growing for 21st century food security, FreedomGardens.org is an online social community of gardening enthusiasts who are fed up with foreign oil, frequent food miles and high food prices. It’s not finished yet, but no matter, we are celebrating small victories here today. The PTF team is pleased to say that our [...]
GARDEN OF EATIN’
Orlando Home & Leisure Magazine, October 2008 A Landscape Good Enough to Eat Save your money, improve your cooking and help save the planet by transforming your lawn into an edible landscape. By Cindy Heroux No, we’re not suggesting you chow down on that boxwood hedge or dine on dracenas, but there’s a growing movement [...]
TALKIN’ ABOUT FREEDOM
“During the war over 20 million Americans planted these gardens, some even called them ‘Freedom Gardens’” Growing Forward … “freedom” is earned and cannot be taken for granted. In fact, there are forces (lets call them market forces) trying to gain control of the food market for their profit. If they can control the supply [...]
FUTURE OF URBAN AGRICULTURE
“If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce, we would reduce our country’s oil consumption by over 1.1 million barrels of oil every week. That’s not gallons, but barrels.”* From Oily Food, by Steven Hopp. That was Then, This is Now. “In [...]
VICTORY GARDENS FOR THE 21st CENTURY
This ain’t your grandma’s victory garden! Growing for freedom and food security in the 21st century. The success and future of FreedomGardens.org is up to you! Here’s how you can help… Today we passed 510 members and it’s growing by the day! However, we are still hard at work installing some rss plugins which will [...]
BACK TO BASICS: HARVEST KEEPERS
The Wartime Pantry During the two world wars, despite the increased availability of canned goods, American women were called upon to put up their own food as part of their patriotic duty. Available tin was used for some commercial canning but most tin was used in the war effort. By this time, hot pack canning [...]
GROW FOR VICTORY, GROW FOR FREEDOM
(January 2008) PASADENA, CA – As localization becomes increasingly popular due to the continued rise in gas prices and with the cost of living skyrocketing in the southland, Reginald Miller shows us one mans way of saving money by bringing back an alternate method of putting food on the table the old fashioned way :: [...]
