I was just coming home from kindergarden when I saw daddy in the side yard with a man, and a horse with a moldboard plow. We ended up with potatoes on the right side of the house, corn in front and and a mixed garden toward the left. After the war we dropped the potatoes and corn in front, but kept the big garden and grew about 50 varieties of various vegetables. Had the Victory Garden for 10 years, grew about 1/4th of our total food. Canned food for winter. Learned to work while neighbor children played. Learned entrepreneurship when pop let me sell surplus and keep the money. Never had a cavity until I went to college dorm food. Got 6 the first year there. This was 2 miles from New York City.
Love that story.
Love how VP put a special emphasis on elderly.
They were there for us, time for us to be there for them.
When I was a kid my Mom had a large garden in our huge backyard. Corn, tomatoes, green beans, onions and aother stuff. Every summer she fired up the canner and canned tomatoes and green beans and then in the fall she always made apple butter. We had a dozen Rhode Island Reds for eggs. I still have chickens and now garden in a raised bed and containers. We get a lot of veggies out of a small area.
I saw Bill Spence and Fennig’s All-Stars in, hmm, late 1978? In his intro to the Gaspe Reel, he recounted his experience the first time audiences reacted with smiles to its familiarity after Crockett’s Victory Garden (PBS) had started to use the theme without permission. Looks like the old guy has retired.
Fennigs with Bill Spence—his final performance. Gaspe reel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXnx2ZHjubE