WWII American Victory Gardens

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Comment by EML on December 28, 2008 at 4:14pm

Thanks for the info Mike! I can't wait to check out your site, and especially the historic 1918 Victory Garden manual.

Comment by Mike Taylor on December 26, 2008 at 3:47pm

I have a victory garden page started. The page has a scanned 1918 Victory Garden Manual, a 1943 video (OMG! look at the poisons that kids is using without any protective gear!), some odd-ball videos from England made during the war, and a link to the UC Victory Garden page.

I also have some serious advice on how to keep on top of the Victory Garden movement. You need to get a Google account (if you don't already have one). Go to Google.com, and get your free account, or log-in (if you use GMail, you have an account already). Next, once you are logged into Google, go over to the 'more' option and click the down-arrow. Select 'Reader' from the drop-down list. Install the reader. Once the reader is installed, you can drag it up into any of your browser tool bars for easy opening. There, now that we're all signed in, you are at the blank reader page. Go to your browser's 'Preferences' tab ('Tools' menu in Mac, 'Flock' menu in Flock, or where ever your browser's preferences live). On your preferences window, click on 'Feeds', and select the 'Subscribe to Feed using...', and then select Google. Close out that window.Now watch the video and let Chris give you the tour of your new 'In-Box'...

Next go back to the 'more' down-arrow, drop the list, and select 'even more' from the bottom of the list. This takes you to a new page; select 'Alerts'. Click the icon, a window opens, and you are ready to create an alert. It is very simple, just enter the search term (sometimes enclosing the search term in quotes is good idea to narrow ambiguous search terms, but you can edit these later). Select where you want to search (I like comprehensive, since it covers blogs, news, videos - all the options). Then you can select how often you want an alert delivered to you ('as-it-happens' is good). You can select 'E-Mail' or 'Feed'. If you don't have Google reader, select 'E-Mail', but if you have Reader installed, select Feed. When you do this, you get a new window with the alert listed, and an option to feed it to Google Reader. Click that option...

Now, whenever anyone blogs, issues a press release, puts up a new video, whatever, that is tagged with your search phrase, it is fed to your reader, ready to go, no searching required. Adding the search terms you are tracking will keep you ahead of 95% of the experts in that field because you get the news as it breaks' Now, how cool is that? BTW, I found you when this post popped up in reader...

Comment by EML on December 26, 2008 at 12:22pm

Dana,
Thanks for catching the broken link. It should be fixed now. BTW, have you posted any info about your Victory Garden project? I'd love to learn more. :)

Comment by Dana Miller on December 24, 2008 at 10:48am

Elena....can't get through on the link....and I really want to read the info. Transition Denver is involved in a Grow Local/Victory Garden month planning, and I want such info! Thanks so much for posting it.....would I just be able to google Victory Gardens and Google Knol and get to it?