Dr Rose Hayden-Smith is the author of Sowing the Seeds of Victory: American Gardening Programs of World War I. We discuss Victory Gardens, food security, women in farming and more!

• Dr Hayden-Smith’s history specialty (0:00:54)
• What are Victory Gardens? (0:01:55)
• The Women’s Land Army (0:03:20)
• World War I movements (0:04:35)
• The art of the Victory Gardens posters (0:06:20)
• The adoption of planting gardens (0:08:12)
• School gardening (0:10:18)
• Funding from National Defence (0:12:43)
• How highways changed the way we eat (0:17:55)
• The desire for meaning (0:19:08)
• Cooking, bread-making today (0:22:54)
• Hunger and food access (0:24:30)
• Hydroponic indoor gardening (0:28:29)
• Sisters of the Soil (0:30:04)
• Women in farming today (0:32:19)
• How to keep the momentum going (0:32:55)
• Food security in politics (0:36:16)
• State-level food policies (0:37:10)
• Faith communities and agriculture (0:39:11)
• Optimism in the future (0:40:28)
• Good starter vegetables for beginners (0:42:15)
• Dr. Hayden-Smith’s memories in gardens (0:43:50)

Dr. Rose Hayden-Smith’s website: https://rosehaydensmith.com/ Buy the book! https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/sowing-the-seeds-of-victory/ Dr. Rose Hayden-Smith on Twitter: https://twitter.com/victorygrower

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