Gardening When It Counts: Gardening in Times of Hardship and Need: Books

PHS's Philadelphia Green featured in chapter "Philadelphia: a City of Neighborhoods."

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Contents: War and gardens -- Trench gardens : the Western Front in World War I -- Ghetto gardens : Nazi Europe, 1939-44 -- Barbed-wire gardens : Allied prisoners of war and civilian internees in Europe and Asia in the world wars -- Stone gardens : Japanese American internment camps, 1942-45 -- Postwar : gardens after the war -- Digging deeper : the spriit of defiant gardens.

Contents: Liberty Day -- The girl with a hoe behind the man with a gun. The right to serve : a British Land Army ; Female preparedness ; An agricultural army ; Suffrage agriculture ; Soil sisters ; A feminine invasion of the land : the Bedford Camp ; Farmerettes abd Hoover Helpers : Fall 1917 ; Women on the land ; A hysterical appeal ; A fine propaganda : the Fair Farmerette and her publicity machine ; Enlist now! -- The Patriot Farmerette. In bifurcated garb of toil : California ; Hortense Powdermaker in Maryland ; Cultivating the soothing weed : Connecticut ; Libertyville : Illinois ; Girls who thought potatoes grew on trees : New England ; The Farmerette in Wanamaker’s window : selling the Land Army in New Jersey ; Georgia cotton ; Harsh terrain ; Miss Diehl and the Wellesley Experiment Station ; Tiller, planter, gleaner : New York ; Marriage of convenience ; A hungry world ;Carry on ; Farmerette redux : 1919 and beyond

Excellent survey of the history of vegetable gardening in America.