victory gardens

We delve ever deeper into the OG American Girl canon as we explore the pranktastic world of Molly McIntire. We try to decipher the strange recurring chronologies of American Girl books and discuss the highs and lows of the first six Molly books. In this episode we examine the books' decidedly Midwestern-nice spin on World War II complete with casseroles, Victory Gardens, turnip emojis and never-mentioned Nazis. Ella takes us on a spectacle-ular dive into Molly's (or possibly Chekov's) glasses, we struggle with the take home lessons of Molly's glow up, and we ask some hard questions about the serious liability issues at Camp Gowonagin. Additionally, we take a side trip to discuss the book Molly Takes Flight with women's aviation history expert Lauren Deutsch from the College Park Aviation Museum.

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We mentioned a lot of topics in this episode. Here’s a brief list of some informative articles about some of them if you want to do your own further research:   
Hula as culture, not costume:
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/cultural-appropriation-halloween-costume-video
Evacuations of British children during WWII:
https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/articles/the-evacuation-of-children-during-the-second-world-war/
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/forgotten-wolf-children-world-war-ii
Rationing and victory gardens:
https://www.history.com/news/americas-patriotic-victory-gardens  
    

Long-time farmer, gardener, and educator Melissa Metrick (manager, NYU Urban Farm Lab, and adjunct professor in the Nutrition and Food Studies Department at NYU) joins host Wythe Marschall (research associate, Cornell University) as a co-host to explore different visions for the future of growing food in and around cities. In this first episode, Wythe and Melissa discuss how she has adapted her Introduction to Urban Agriculture course at NYU Steinhardt in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Short version: she’s had to move a very physical class fully online, and her students are now MacGyvering planters and hydroponic buckets out of recyclables at home. Wythe and Melissa cover many changes in education and home-growing. We also learn a lot about running a teaching farm in the middle of New York City! Take a listen and, if you like this conversation, follow Fields for more!
 

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Episode 6 of At the Table is with Jacqueline Pilati, an urban farmer, seed keeper, educator, and founding member of Cooperative Gardens Commission, a grassroots movement to share resources and help people grow food for themselves and their communities in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Jacqueline explains the importance of food sovereignty as it relates to food justice. She also discusses the many challenges that farmers are facing as a result of the pandemic and explains the complicated history of Victory Gardens. 
 

Watch the video version here: https://www.mofad.org/episode-6?_ga=2.133134283.419660897.1588082186-892082491.1570804996

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What's up all you beautiful rowdy scoundrels and scandalously salubrious scalawags!

The BNP here, comin' in hot with a mind-melter and horizon-dilator of an ep featuring not one, ladies and gentlemen, but two PhD's together in studio, speaking concurrently but with therapeutic flow and amiable cadence about the current wild and woolly goings on in the world. (By in studio I mean they called in from their undisclosed self-isolation hovel hundreds of miles away. "In studio" is a mindset people, a lifestyle. Nay, a religion. Instudioism. A fine way to live.)

We chat about the sociology of and collective consciousness around Covid-19, from an analysis of American society's reluctance to wear face masks, to the proverbial 'unmasking' (pun intended) of the OG neoconservative think tank figures and pundits who are busily escalating tensions against China. In between, there's a superfluity of topics guaranteed to whet your brain whistle and sate the cosmic yearnings of your crystalline pineal gland.

I also ask Sylvie and Ernest what it was like personally and psychologically when they were teased and ridiculed early on for warning people to get ready and stock up well before anyone was taking it seriously.

Finally, as I'm wont to do, we end on a positive tip, discussing the need for backyard victory gardens and the many benefits to American people we would see if Big Pharma were to be nationalized.

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"The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

In this episode of the CHCA Entrepreneurial Podcast, I interview both Alex O'Brien (class of 2017) and Maria Pancioli (class of 2019). Alex O'Brien began building the CHCA Organic Garden as a 7th grader and, upon graduation, handed the project off to Maria Pancioli. Alex discusses how building the garden taught him the importance of collaborating in teams for problem solving, and Maria discusses how the garden was instrumental in her path to study horticulture. The CHCA Organic Garden is a core part of the burgeoning entrepreneurship program at the school and will be used in bringing farm-to-school hands-on learning to all grades at Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy.

Grocery store shelves got you anxious about food security? Spending more time at home and looking for a new project? Start a Victory Garden! Guests Julia Graham-Whitt and Mir de Silva of Two Green Thumbs share tips and tricks to get your first garden established, from seeds to soil and grass to garden. 

Interested in learning more? Check out these free resources:

• https://humgardens.com/
• http://northcoastgardening.
• https://www.almanac.com/

The best and easiest strategy for starting to grow food now is to use your existing landscape; you already have bare soil, mulch and in most cases irrigation.

But if you don't have any existing landscape stay tuned because we are going to touch on this today as well. 

Having a hard time finding seeds?  We are covering that today as well.

Here are the links I promised. 

https://edifulgardens.com/2020gardenplan/

https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/nannette-blair/the-ediful-gardens-podcast/e/63308802

https://www.willhiteseed.com/

https://youtu.be/3HBMJuKo9WE

https://edifulgardens.com/start/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDHaFfHHDPo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKpAsjdJU9E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXwfZPO9ToU&t=21s

https://www.buzzsprout.com/248813/1134275

As always, please feel free to reach out by email at nannette@edifulgardens.com