Canadian Victory Gardens. The Story Of How Gardening In Canada Changed A Country. 🇨🇦🍁

[@GardeningInCanada]

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[@DragonflyenAmber]

My grandparents had Victory Gardens in their yards. I found family photos from around WW2 of their garden. What they were able to do with a small backyard was incredible. So much knowledge was passed on through my dad to me, things I'm sure started out in that little yard when he was a child. I'm part of a local historical society, I will see if they have a copy of the old pamphlets to send you.

[@GardeningInCanada]

Very very cool

[@davidbivinsblinc5224]

Hello

[@Hatarue]

Epic video! So informative! Loved it. Thank you. 🇨🇦

[@GardeningInCanada]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@christinawakefield1971]

I have research on wartime gardening in Northwestern Ontario area in WWI. The City of Port Arthur sponsored a Garden Club, which taught people how to garden, provided seeds and seed potatoes at cost, very low cost tilling of vacant lots, as well as a garden plan to show how and where to plant all the seeds. They held a competition for school children and one for club members. In the second year they added a category for soldier’s wives. They also added pigs and encouraged citizens to save their scraps to feed the pigs. The City of Fort William tilled an entire subdivision where the land had started to be sold but no building was started. They created a farm whose labour was supplied by those who applied for welfare.

[@GardeningInCanada]

That’s so cool thank you for adding this

[@danadykema3363]

So cool! I am doing a presentation on Bringing Back the Victory Garden tonight in North Vancouver with a farmer in my gardening course. I;ll definitely share some of this info with my audience!

[@GardeningInCanada]

That’s so cool!

[@milkweed7678]

Very interesting. Can you imagine all the seed that was saved year after year in both countries and shared and exchanged with one another? It really doesn't take much of each thing grown, open pollinated of course, to have enough seed for the next year's graden. Great video!

[@GardeningInCanada]

I envision that time as a time of sharing, respect and kindness. Your life relied on it

[@thinkingofothers353]

Thank you for the wonderful job you did on this video. Really well done , much interesting information...

[@GardeningInCanada]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@NewMindGarden]

Wow.. Amazing sharing ❤️❤️🌷🌷👌👌👍👍

[@GardeningInCanada]

Anytime!

[@Bichonfrise369]

Hello everyone remember to share this video on social media. To help others fine this channel.

[@michaelmarchione3408]

That was a fantastic history lesson! Here is the U.S., My great-grandmother had a boarding house during WWII and had a Victory Garden in her back yard. My grandmother joined the Teamsters' Union to transport food etc. My mom was in high school and received a certificate, which I have, for starting a Victory Garden. She, along with her mother, and grandmother, also gave blood and put together bandages for the Red Cross. That generation was the "GREATEST GENERATION". Our two countries together did a lot to save the world. Great Britain needed North America. I have an AS degree with a major in American History, minor in U.S. Military History and a BA in U.S. History with a minor in Andragogy. ( Though I did retire as an ironworker ) But, I never thought of furthering my research in Victory Gardens. I really enjoyed hearing what it was like in Canada and how your Victory Garden progressed. And a HUGE thanks to the men and women in Canada that served along side us! Take care! Oh, and I grow American Legion Poppies that you talked about in your other video that grow across Europe. I'm in American Legion.

[@GardeningInCanada]

Thank you for sharing! that is so cool about your family history

[@gfutube1]

Fascinating

[@emptynestgardens9057]

You are awesome! Thanks for thinking to link this day with gardening, doing the research and sharing with us all. I'm 53 and just learned things I never knew. 🇨🇦 🎖️🕊️

[@GardeningInCanada]

Awee I love that ❤️ I’m glad you enjoyed

[@mumbairay]

When you go out on wildderness trail with a spade. And nature calls. There will be a food forest a few years later where you answered said nature. Given that you packed lots of in season fruits and berries.

[@GardeningInCanada]

Yea!

[@DavidMFChapman]

COVID triggered a massive explosion of home gardening here in Halifax. A quiet gardening Facebook group I help administer must have quadrupled in size. Most were beginners with tons of questions. Not only did garden centres have trouble stocking their shelves, the new gardeners bought everything in sight. My response was to try to become self-sufficient in seeds and transplants. In 2021 I bought zero veggie transplants. The only variation on self-sufficiency I allowed myself was bean seeds: I purposely bought more seed than I needed, because I wanted to try some new varieties. The other thing I noted was that many more people are growing food in their front yards. I used to joke about growing potatoes instead of lawn, but I’ve done it for two tests now, plus garlic!

[@GardeningInCanada]

Quadrupled?! That’s insane

[@Bichonfrise369]

Thank you. Very good information in our history.

[@GardeningInCanada]

Awee thank you

[@apextroll]

Thanks for the education Ashley.

[@GardeningInCanada]

Absolutely anytime!

[@apextroll]

@@GardeningInCanada I tell people the poppy story all the time.

[@GardeningInCanada]

That’s awesome! I love the idea that it dug up old landscape seed reserves

[@francismeowgannou5322]

I'm early today! Love learning about history.

[@GardeningInCanada]

Haha you are extra speedy today!

[@thecakepopsistars]

🇨🇦 incredible 💗

[@GardeningInCanada]

❤️❤️❤️

[@Enn-]

Great info. Thanks Ashley!

[@GardeningInCanada]

You're so welcome!

[@louiseb6288]

So interesting, thank you!

[@GardeningInCanada]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@missgbrave]

absolutely love this!!!

[@GardeningInCanada]

❤️❤️❤️

[@wildedibles819]

Maybe thats why many edible flowers were planted eg day lillies, roses, phlox, herbals etc...dont need much to grow them and they are hidden food supply if you really needed it and they come back next year with no effort;)

[@GardeningInCanada]

Yea exactly!

[@wildedibles819]

@@GardeningInCanada cool to learn about these things my house is old enough and i think i know exactly where my victory garden was Our basement enterance was also moved from outside to inside with a hidden enterance in the floor Bomb shelter people like the idea of having one of them lol Much love xoxox

[@GardeningInCanada]

That’s so flipping cool

[@krisyallowega5487]

I was chatting with my Mum & Dad the other day about this. To say things were tough is an understatement. It was not a matter of living but surviving. It took a long time for society to get out of the Depression, then to be thrown into a War to top it off. The Political atmosphere was not a Happy Place.

[@GardeningInCanada]

Total agree with that

[@davidbivinsblinc5224]

Hello

[@ZE308AC]

Victory Garden for the win. Try and buy land so you can grow your own eat your own produce.

[@ZE308AC]

The government always frowns on the society who is prepared or grow your own food.

[@GardeningInCanada]

So bizzare

[@va3svd]

@@GardeningInCanada Keep in mind how cruel this was. The government rationed food for its citizens, and ceaselessly shamed anyone who dared take advantage of a black market. At the same time, it did everything it could to prevent those same people from sourcing their own.

[@wildedibles819]

Food forest permaculture great example

[@kendravoracek3636]

💚💚

[@GardeningInCanada]

❤️❤️❤️

[@va3svd]

Without government, who would tell people not to try to grow their own food?

[@christinawakefield1971]

I have research on wartime gardening in Northwestern Ontario area in WWI. The City of Port Arthur sponsored a Garden Club, which taught people how to garden, provided seeds and seed potatoes at cost, very low cost tilling of vacant lots, as well as a garden plan to show how and where to plant all the seeds. They held a competition for school children and one for club members. In the second year they added a category for soldier’s wives. They also added pigs and encouraged citizens to save their scraps to feed the pigs. The City of Fort William tilled an entire subdivision where the land had started to be sold but no building was started. They created a farm whose labour was supplied by those who applied for welfare.