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Chicago Victory Gardens: Yesterday and Tomorrow

The Rogers Park/West Ridge Historical Society invites you to join them on the evening of June 16 for:  

"Chicago Victory Gardens: Yesterday and Tomorrow"

Logospls Listen as avid gardener and blogger LaManda Joy unearths the fascinating stories behind Chicago's World War II Victory Garden effort.  LaManda will reveal how Chicago mobilized to deal with food rationing and severely decreased resources while building morale and community pride to become the Victory Garden role model for the entire nation.

Outlining parallels between the Victory Gardeners of the 1940s and the booming garden movement of today, LaManda will also discuss her latest endeavor, The Peterson Garden Project.

The Peterson Garden Project is an organic, community vegetable garden on the corner of Peterson and Campbell in Chicago's West Ridge neighborhood. The site was part of an original WW2 Victory Garden from 1942-1945. This revival Victory Garden is being launched for the 2010 growing season for Chicago residents who, like those gardeners almost 70 years ago, want to work with their neighbors to grow their own food.
 
Peterson Garden
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
7 p.m.
Devon Bank - 6445 N. Western
Admission to Lecture: $5.00 per adult, $1.00 per child under 12, RP/WRHS members: free

All proceeds benefit RP/WRHS and The Peterson Garden Project.

For additional information visit www.rpwrhs.org

June 08, 2010 in Rogers Park Happenings |

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