Wow! My friend Lisa Giroday and two of her friends (Sam Philips and Sandra Lopuch) have gone and done something super awesome. They’ve launched an urban gardening business called Victory Gardens that draws on old idea hatched during wartimes past.
They're going to help transform front yards for food production, facilitating dynamic workshops such as “Grow Your Own Pizza” (!!!), providing education and planning tools for the new urban farmer to grow what they eat and much more.
And I love the story on how they landed on their name. In their own words, "The term Victory Gardens speaks to WWI and WWII era campaigns instigated by American, Canadian, German and British governments intending to reduce the pressure on public food supply. However; more than that, Victory Gardens served as symbols of comradery and support, unifying the masses to promote sustainability, efficient land use, innovative economic models and to unite families in a passive war effort for victory. British Columbia and Vancouver were no exception to this push for city farming, and in early 1943, The Vancouver News Herald reported, 'If all the Victory Gardens in British Columbia were lumped together, they would occupy a space approximately three times the size of Vancouver's great Stanley Park." At that time, the paper said, there were 1425 gardens on city-owned lots.'
Not much has changed in the way a Victory Garden can benefit the community today, so we’re delighted to provide the tools to make that connection!"
Visit their SITE/FACEBOOK/TWITTER to find out more.
Stay tuned for more Random Acts!
