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A Garden History
October 15, 2014 @ 12:00 am
Presented by Goleta Valley Historical Society and co-hosted by Fairview Gardens
History Education Center
at Rancho La Patera & Stow House (click for map)
With interest in home hardens at the highest it’s been in decade, this lecture will take us back to another time when national interest was focused on household agriculture — the victory gardens of the first and second World Wars. Dr. Rose Hayden-Smith will talk about current national policy and models, as well as the way that the local food-systems movement is addressing a wide range of challenge facing Americans today. She will also discuss her new book Sowing the Seeds of Victory: American Gardening Programs of World War 1.
About the Speaker
Dr. Hayden-Smith has been an academic with the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources Cooperative Extension (UC ANR) since 1992. She has worked in the area of youth development and food systems-agriculture and also with 4-H and Master Gardener programs. For more info, visit rosehayden-smith.com.
Reservations Recommended!
Admission is Complimentary.
dacia@goletahistory.org
(805) 681-7216, ext. 2
hm 9/30/14 – aj 10/1/14