and heard stories from my grandmother, her sister.
Grandma had 8 kids to feed, and a husband who drank.
She also owned chickens and a cow, and gardened.
Famous family story is that when the city cut the power for lack of payment, grandpa climbed the pole and hooked the wires back up.
several times.

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The chickens, cow and garden is what i often wonder

During WWII the UK (reading history) used 'victory gardens' (small gardens even in parks and abandoned lots)

Somewhere i read a project in Chicago was doing the same

Sometimes i wonder if bringing the 'common' back (common as in everyone can grow a little there and let animals pasture) might not be an idea in some areas

If that diary contains tricks (i'm sure it does)
and you feel like sharing recepies or tricks or so

i for one would love to learn
better to spread the knowledge from the Depression before it vanishes

oh and ...welcome to the group

not worth sharing.

On another note, I noticed on the photo map that Mobile, Louisiana comes up when you click on Mobile, and wrote a note to the
programmer.
Strange mistake for a well known city.

going on. Detroit has 3 urban gardens. Will Allen (former basketball player) has a great set up in Milwaukee, and he teaches others to do the same.

appologies

as soon as i saw gentlemans face i recognized it from the documentary i saw

Thanks for correction and welcome to the group

we all need to learn to grow things and plant them all over the place. Plant apple trees etc, that require little care but produce food in neighborhoods who have fewer grocery stores. etc,

I know how bad-ass my grandparents were. They survived famine, Stalin, and Hitler and came to Canada with nothing. They did well.

It'd be a big fat lie. My still-living grandmother is over 100, still owns and runs her own drapery manufacturing business ( and she's a one woman show) and can STILL work circles around all the rest of us females on that side combined. The woman is a freaking force of nature, lol. My other grandmother was also a force to be reckoned with. Both very lovely women, but it's a rule in our family: Don't mess w grandma!