Fenway Park on a summer day.

There's history, there are cold, refreshing beverages, and there is baseball.

It is a beautiful summer trio.

But right around the corner from Fenway Park, there's more beauty and more history,

in the form of a seven and a half acre garden space.

Not one big garden, but hundreds of individual plots.

This is the Fenway Victory Gardens.

And you might think this is related to baseball wins, but these gardens go way back.

Back to World War II, when Americans were told that because

of the massive war effort, we needed to grow more food, and growing a victory garden was a perfect

way to play your part. At their peak during the war years, there were millions of these

gardens all across the country.

But today, there's only two of these gardens left, and only one of them is still in its

original spot, down the street from that Boston staple.

I'm Dylan Thuris, and this is Atlas of Skira,

a celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places.

Today, we are breaking out our garden spades and digging into the Fenway Victory Gardens,

the story of their miraculous survival and enduring impact.

After this. If you walk into the Victory Gardens, you will see hundreds and hundreds of fenced-in plots, each about 12 to 15 feet wide and about 20 to 30 feet deep.

And what makes these places especially beautiful is that each garden

is made entirely from the vision of its individual creator. Some are filled with colorful

flowers like roses and daisies, while others are filled with fruits and vegetables, things like

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