Lynette Evans
"We're not there yet, but the fear of another Great Depression runs deep in our collective memories," e-mailed landscape designer Barbara Bernie of Los Altos. "We Baby Boomers have all heard stories of food rationing and survival tricks during one of the bleakest chapters in our national economic history, and maybe then we laughed at grandparents who just couldn't throw that old ball of twine or wrapping paper away. Not anymore!
"Victory Gardens began in Britain during the war ('Plant more in '44!') as a way to help lower the price of vegetables needed to feed the troops, and during World War II, lawns from Hyde Park in London to San Francisco's Golden Gate Park were transformed into Victory Gardens. Twenty million Americans grew 40 percent of all the vegetable produce consumed nationally during the Victory Garden campaign."
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