Gardens & Related Matters:
• "Victory in the Garden" (Alameda Sun, 11 July 2008)
• "A Kitchen Garden Can Grow Year Round" (Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2008)
• "Slow Food Nation Wants YOU to Plant the Victory Garden!" (SFWeekly.com (SFoodie blog), 11 July 2008)
• "A Hollow Victory for Urban Gardening Movement" (San Francisco Bay Guardian Online (SGBG Politics blog), 11 July 2008)
• "Victory Gardens Still En Vogue" (The Modesto Bee, 11 July 2008)
• "UC Adviser Encourages Victory Garden's Return" (The California Aggie, 10 July 2008) - An interview with Rose Hayden-Smith!
• "Our View" (Daily 49er, 10 July 2008) - Cal State Long Beach news teams supports gardening!
• "Gardening Efforts Growing on the North Fork" (The Suffolk Times (NY), 10 July 2008)
• "Green Roofs, Walls Becoming Latest Trends" (Examiner (Pa.), 10 July 2008)
• "Seasoned Soil Turners, Greenhorn Green Thumbs Battle Bad Economy By Growing their Own Food" (SalisburyPost.com (NC), 9 July 2008) - Possibly the best headline yet!
• "Greenspace: Gardening a Way to Create Independence" (Chippewa.com, 8 July 2008)
• "The Victory Garden" (The Sankofa.org, no date): The sponsoring organization of this site, The Sankofa, derives its name from an Akan word meaning "To return to the past in order to go forward." The site promotes the Victory Garden revival to the African-American community. (Read more about the origin of the word "Sankofa" here.)• "In Urban Green Spaces: Wilting Economy Has Community Gardeners Digging Deeper into Their Own Pockets" (New Haven Register, 13 July 2008)
• "Victory Gardens: Not Quite My Garden" (And Rightly So! (blog), 15 June 2008) - A conservative blogger scanned several images from a vintage VG booklet. The illustrations are great!
• "Do We Really Need a Few Billion Localvores?" (NYT Freakonomics blog, 9 June 2008) - Hoo, boy. Take a look and tell me what you think.
• "Ten Steps to Becoming a Locavore" (NOW (PBS), 2 November 2007)
• "Hollygrove Residents Taking Food Matters Into Their Own Hands" (NOLA.com, 7 July 2008)
• "BookNotes: Seedfolks" (Plant Whatever Brings You Joy (blog), 7 May 2008): A blogger/garden writer's review of a Newbery Award-winning author's children's book centered on a Cleveland, OH community garden. Quite nice.
• "How Do His Veggies Grow? The No-Dig Way" (Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2008) - A month-old story, but a good one. Related "how-to" story here.
Food Crisis & Related Material:
• "Drought Threatens Iraq's Crops and Water Supply" (Associated Press, 11 July 2008)
• "Iraq's Electricity-Starved Capital Turns to Solar" (Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2008)
• "Drought Hurts Vital Australian Wheat" (Associated Press, 13 July 2008)
• "G8 Leaders Conclude with Pledge to Ease Global Food Crisis" (Environment Newswire, 9 July 2008)
• "Biofuels Fuel Global Food Crisis" (TheStar.com, 8 July 2008)
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