Sowing the Seeds of Victory Gardens: Then and Now
Rose Hayden–Smith
Tuesday, 13 Oct 2009 at 7:00 pm – Garden Room, Reiman Gardens
Rose Hayden-Smith is a practicing U.S. historian and a nationally recognized expert on victory gardens, wartime food policies and school garden programs. She is the director of the University of California's Cooperative Extension in Ventura County, which houses the Farm Advisors Office, Master Gardeners and 4-H programs. She is also a 2008-9 Kellogg Foundation Food and Society Policy Fellow. She holds masters degrees in education and U.S. history and is a PhD candidate in U.S. history and Public Historical Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.From the Huffington Post for which she has written several times:
Rose Hayden-Smith
An academic with the University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Rose Hayden-Smith's work focuses on providing gardening and food systems education to youth, educators and community audiences. A practicing U.S. historian, she is a nationally recognized expert on Victory Gardens, wartime food policies, and school garden programs. She is a 2008-2009 Food and Society Policy Fellow (FASP). The creator of UC's Victory Grower website and blog.
From her university web site:
Cooperative Extension Ventura County, UC, Davis
Bio: An IATP/Kellogg Food and Society Policy Fellow, Hayden-Smith develops programs for youth and adult extenders in agricultural literacy, garden-based learning and youth and community gardening. Hayden-Smith is also a practicing U.S. historian, and is a nationally-recognized expert in the history of youth/school gardening; Victory Gardens; extension education; federal policy relating to agriculture/education; and the American homefront in wartime. Her national advocacy work focuses on encouraging a national effort to promote school, home, and community garden and urban agriculture efforts; public policy relating to food systems, gardening, education and urban agriculture.
Cosponsored By:
- Reiman Gardens
- World Food Prize Foundation
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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