History Re-eating It...

As you may know, our original garden at Peterson and Campbell was a WW2 Victory Garden. Our name “Peterson Garden” comes from that location. The “Project” part stems from our desire to use the WW2 model to see if it would work in our age. And we learned quickly, at...

Pop-up Victory Garde...

2012 is the 70th anniversary of the first year of WW2 and the first historic Victory Garden summer. Since The Peterson Garden Project had brought awareness to the story of Chicago’s role in the Victory Garden movement, at least in our little corner of the city, we thought it might be...

Mommy the Riveter

My adventure with The Peterson Garden Project started late in 2009 when I began researching the history of Victory Gardens in Chicago. But, in reality, it started many, many years before. Long before I was born in fact. My parents are “greatest generation” which means they were...