Grocery bills are crushing California workers. Since the pandemic, food prices have jumped roughly 35%. And there are no signs of slowing down.
The California chapter of the American Communist Party (ACP) has spent the last several months traveling across the state helping their neighbors build victory gardens. From Sacramento to San Francisco, Palo Alto to Penngrove, and Sebastopol, ACP has shown up with tools, seeds, and labor, planting beans, greens, potatoes, tomatoes, basil, cucumbers, peppers, lettuce, zucchini, squash, onions, and scallions in backyards and community spaces alike. With just a few hours of work, families can grow the equivalent of hundreds of dollars in groceries, and repeat that over and over again.
Victory gardens aren’t a new idea. During both World Wars and the Great Depression, Americans turned their lawns and backyards into vegetable gardens. At peak production 40% of the country’s fresh fruits and vegetables came from victory gardens.
The ACP is bringing that tradition back for a new era of economic hardship. Now ACP has taken their efforts online. ACPVictoryGarden.com is a free resource with detailed growing guides for dozens of edible plants. Start with a few high-yield staples:
🥔 Potatoes
🥒 Squash
Visit ACPVictoryGarden.com to explore the full plant library and start building food sovereignty in your community. Reach out and they will even help you with free seeds.
Food sovereignty starts locally. Build it in your community.