Post date: May 19, 2012 4:3:3 PM
While in Boston I came across the Fenway Park Victory Gardens. Fenway Park is of course much more famous for baseball, but this very interesting community garden is actually hosted on the Fenway Park that the baseball field was named after.
Victory Gardens date back to World War II, and this is the last remaining of 49 different sites set up all over Boston. While originally created to provide fresh fruit and vegetables to families during rationing, the garden is now much more ornamental, although some plots still have vegetables growing.
They have around 500 plots and 3 giant compost piles, although I saw no signs that they were composting kitchen scraps like we do.
Oh, and one of the plots even had bees.
There are numerous articles on the web about how victory gardens are making a comeback, but in Boston, they never really left.