317 - Victory Gardens Then and Now with Maggie Stuckey, author of The Container Victory Garden

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Jill McSheehy

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🗓️ 4 July 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Happy 4th of July! I hope you are enjoying this Independance Day. In today's episode, we are discussing something very appropriate for the holiday. This is Maggie Stuckey, author of The Container Victory Garden. We are talking all about the victory gardens of past and present with some container ideas mixed in. I hope you enjoy!

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0:00.0	Happy July and welcome to the Beginners Garden podcast. I'm so glad that you're here today.
0:05.8	For my listeners in the United States, I would like to say happy Independence Day. It just so
0:12.2	worked out that today's episode is going live on July 4th, which means that today's guest
0:18.8	is an absolute perfect fit for our nation's holiday. Now, for my
0:23.2	international listeners, there's a whole lot in here for you. We're going to be talking about
0:27.3	things that honestly happened worldwide, but also we're going to be talking about some practical
0:32.6	things that can apply to gardeners all over the world. But in particular, today's guests, we're going to be
0:39.2	talking to Maggie Stucky. She was the author of the container victory garden. And what I loved about
0:46.2	her book, I honestly, when I saw it, I thought, okay, this is going to be a book about growing in
0:50.0	containers, which it absolutely is. It's got so much practical information in it. But she also spends
0:56.3	a good amount of the first part of her book talking about victory gardens in general and hearing
1:02.1	people's stories of when they or their family members grew victory gardens back in World War II.
1:08.8	I think the World War I stories are sadly lost for the most part
1:12.6	except for what's in writing, but she was able to interview people who actually remember
1:17.1	the Victory Gardens in World War II. And we're actually going to be talking a lot about
1:21.7	what that looked like back in the 1940s and then what the similarities and differences are between the Victory Gardens
1:30.3	back then and what a lot of us considered to be Victory Gardens when the pandemic hit,
1:35.5	because as Maggie's going to tell us, millions of new people, you'll learn exactly how many
1:42.5	when we talk, but millions of new people started gardens in
1:45.5	2020. And maybe that was you. And so I love how she correlates and draws the line between
1:53.3	those victory gardens and these victory gardens. And to me, it was just so fascinating.
1:58.7	Personally, I am a big fan of history around the World War II era. Just a personal note, I loved my World War II class in college. I wasn't a history major, but it was probably one of my favorite classes. And my great uncle was actually a congressional medal of honor winner for World War II. And when I was in that World War II class in college, I had a chance to talk to him
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