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VICTORY GARDEN GROUP GAINS GROUND IN TOWN.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 29-MAR-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: VICTORY GARDEN GROUP GAINS GROUND IN TOWN.(Business)

Article Excerpt
Byline: The Register-Guard

During World War II, an estimated 20 million Americans planted Victory Gardens in yards and on rooftops to help boost morale, feed their families and conserve food and fuel for the troops.

Locally, the gardens began to make a comeback last year thanks to Victory Gardens for All, a small Eugene nonprofit group founded in late 2007 by Charlotte Anthony.

A lifelong gardener, Anthony had volunteered with relief efforts in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and she was dismayed by what she witnessed.

"The people living there didn't have ways of...

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