While many refer to gardening as a hobby today, gardening was a necessity for survival nearly 90 years ago during the Great Depression. And contrary to what you may think, not everyone knew how to garden back then.
By 1933, there were three large government-funded community gardens in Portsmouth as part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) and its nationwide subsistence gardens program, which were also known as the emergency gardens, relief gardens and welfare gardens.
Two subsistence garden plots were on city property at the New Franklin School and Atlantic Heights School. The city’s third and ultimately largest of the garden plots was on land in the West End owned by the Portsmouth Building Association. The land was part of its Westfield Park housing development off Islington Street in in the vicinity of Aldrich, Thaxter and Spinney roads. The Portsmouth Building Association was a group of businessmen and members of the Ports
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Litter and fly-tipping has seen a huge increase across Scotland during lockdown - at a time when we need our outdoor spaces more than ever before. But dog-owners across the country have been joining a litter-picking campaign in droves, and pledging to clean up their communities with the help of their pup companions. Marion Montgomery, who founded the Paws on Plastic campaign in November 2018, began by rounding up volunteers in Stonehaven but quickly saw the group grow to its current numbers of almost 20,000 members from 80 countries around the world.
Marion Montgomery, founder of Paws on Plastic Marion, who was awarded the Clean Up Scotland hero award in 2019, said that the amount of litter in public spaces has undoubtedly been on the rise since the beginning of the pandemic, with disposable masks and gloves an issue of particular concern.