All posts tagged "gardening"
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10.0K15MaineA Maine Shoemaker’s Potato Patch Plan Feeds the Poor
During the terrible depression that followed the Panic of 1893, a transplanted Maine shoemaker came up with a widely ridiculed idea to...
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16.7K6Arts and LeisureBeatrix Farrand Breaks the (Green) Glass Ceiling
Famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted in 1893 dismissed 21-year-old Beatrix Farrand as a dilettante gardener, but six years later she had...
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6.8K10Flashback PhotosFlashback Photos: The School Garden Army Feeds a Hungry Nation During World War I
During World War I, hundreds of thousands of American children joined the U.S. School Garden Army and helped feed a hungry nation at...
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18.3K12Flashback PhotosHow Victory Gardens Helped Win World War II
Victory gardens helped win World War II because they allowed the U.S. government to divert scarce tin supplies for military use. They...
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6.9K5Arts and LeisureH.H. Hunnewell, Railroad Baron and Garden Nut
H.H. Hunnewell was a gardening nut who financed railroads and contributed so much to West Needham, Mass., that the town voted to...
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6.4K6Arts and LeisureCelia Thaxter at 58 Realizes What ‘Fun’ Is
Celia Thaxter celebrated her 58th birthday in 1893 at her cottage on the Isles of Shoals off the coast of New Hampshire...
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