First lady Michelle Obama helped break ground on a new White House organic "kitchen garden" Friday. It will be the first working garden at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. since Eleanor Roosevelt planted a so-called "victory garden" at the height of World War II. cnn.com
Victory gardens spang up during WWII as a way for people to help with the work effort, reduce the demand on the food supply and most importantly bond with a common experience.
A group here in my own town, Emigsville, was busy today tilling their plot for planting. The group effort of weeding and watering hopes to yield some home grown produce.
In the same way Victory Gardens helped to promote a community bond for the war effort, community gardens today help promote a feeling of self-sufficiency and control of what they are eating for consumers by an increasingly globalized, monopolized food supply.
Want organic food? Don't put chemicals on your garden. How simple.
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