{"id":214,"date":"2020-04-03T20:53:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T20:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/columbiamga\/?p=214"},"modified":"2020-04-03T20:53:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T20:53:34","slug":"victory-gardens-go-viral-across-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/columbiamga\/2020\/04\/03\/victory-gardens-go-viral-across-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Victory gardens&#8217; go viral across U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"922\" height=\"398\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3378\/files\/2020\/04\/victory-gardens-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3378\/files\/2020\/04\/victory-gardens-3.png 922w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3378\/files\/2020\/04\/victory-gardens-3-300x130.png 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3378\/files\/2020\/04\/victory-gardens-3-768x332.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 922px) 100vw, 922px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the complete article in the Capital Press online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalpress.com\/ag_sectors\/nursery\/victory-gardens-go-viral-across-u-s\/article_111da0e8-738e-11ea-86b8-2ff7dd54ee14.html\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Across the U.S., gardening is booming as people anxious about food shortages are eager to grow their own vegetables during the COVID-19 outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Cooperative Gardens Commission, people across the nation are planting &#8220;victory gardens,&#8221; modeled after World War I and II plots planted during wartime scarcity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Oregon State University&#8217;s Master Gardener program offered a free online gardening class, the Facebook announcement was shared more than 24,000 times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And garden suppliers are reporting record sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been through this a few times,&#8221; said Tom Johns, president of Territorial Seed Company in Cottage Grove, Ore. &#8220;The recession, stock market crashes, high fuel prices, Y2K. But this is the most concerned public we&#8217;ve ever seen.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The gardening boom has impacted a patchwork of related industries disproportionately. Garden supply chains report high sales of fertilizer and other goods, and nurseries that sell vegetable plants are riding high.&#8221;  Read more online&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalpress.com\/ag_sectors\/nursery\/victory-gardens-go-viral-across-u-s\/article_111da0e8-738e-11ea-86b8-2ff7dd54ee14.html\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the complete article in the Capital Press online HERE. &#8220;Across the U.S., gardening is booming as people anxious about food shortages are eager to grow their own vegetables during the COVID-19 outbreak. According to the Cooperative Gardens Commission, people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/columbiamga\/2020\/04\/03\/victory-gardens-go-viral-across-u-s\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8741,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/columbiamga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/columbiamga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/columbiamga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/columbiamga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8741"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/columbiamga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/columbiamga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/columbiamga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/columbiamga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/columbiamga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/columbiamga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}