Victory Gardens: Join the Garden Revolution!

With interest in home gardens at the highest it has been in decades (even the White House has one), this event will take us back to another time when national interest was focused on household agriculture—the Victory Gardens of World War II. Our own Rose Hayden-Smith will talk about current national policy and models and the way the local food-systems movement is addressing a wide range of challenges facing Americans today. The program will include a tour of historic Stow House and its beautiful gardens and a wine-and-cheese reception following the talk.
The talk will be held on Sunday, March 7, starting at 2:30 p.m. at the History Education Center of the Goleta Valley Historical Society, 304 N. Los Carneros Road, Goleta, CA 93117.

Directions: Exit Highway 101 at Los Carneros Rd and head toward the mountains. After Calle Real, the Goleta Valley Historical Society/Stow House is on the right. Park in the South Coast Railroad Museum (Goleta Depot) lot. The newly restored History Education Center is the old barn in the farm yard behind Stow House.

Rose Hayden-Smith is a PhD candidate in the History Department and a national Kellogg Foundation Fellow. She is a nationally recognized expert on the topic of Victory Gardens and food policy in America, and blogs for the Huffington Post, Civil Eats, and UC’s Victory Grower web site.

This talk is sponsored by the UCSB History Associates.

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