Kitchen garden economy

Examples of Kitchen garden economy in the following topics:

• Slave Culture

  • In all of these instances, slave culture enabled a significant amount of resistance to the plantation economy and created a relatively cohesive slave identity that shaped southern life and relationships between slaves and whites in the colonial era.
  • Many slaves cultivated private gardens that were granted to them by their masters.
  • These "kitchen gardens" were used to produce a slave family's yearly supply of food.
  • Many white masters allowed the "kitchen garden economy" to thrive, letting some slaves leave the plantation on Sundays to sell their wares.
  • Some slaves managed to purchase their own freedom through their kitchen gardens, saving their earnings for years to allow themselves and their children to achieve manumission.

• African-American Culture

  • Slaves also took pride in their private gardens, granted to them by their masters.
  • These "kitchen gardens" were used to produce a slave family's yearly supply of food.
  • Many white masters allowed the "kitchen garden economy" to thrive, letting some slaves leave the plantation on Sundays to sell their wares.
  • Some slaves managed to purchase their own freedom through their kitchen gardens--saving their earnings for years to allow themselves and their children to achieve manumission.

• Hooverville

  • But the economic downturn greatly increased the numbers and concentrations in urban settlements, nearby soup kitchens and other charitable organizations.
  • When the economy began a boom in 1940, unemployment fell and shanty eradication programs destroyed the nation's Hoovervilles.

• Mobilizing a Nation

  • The U.S. mobilized its home front in WWI, resulting in bureaucratic confusion but also expansion of the wartime economy and women in the workforce.
  • In March 1917, Charles Lathrop Pack organized the National War Garden Commission and launched the war garden campaign.
  • A poster campaign encouraged the planting of "victory gardens", emphasizing to home front urbanites and suburbanites that the produce from their gardens would help lower the price of vegetables needed by the U.S.
  • War gardeners in the Washington, D.C. vicinity, circa 1918.
  • Home front efforts led by women, such as large war gardens and domestic "victory gardens," were an important part of U.S. entry into WWI.

• Architecture at Pompeii

  • It could contain gardens and even a pool and provided light as well as shade and breeze for hot summer days.
  • Other features of the domus, include alae (open rooms) with an unknown function, kitchens (culina), and additional rooms for work, sleeping, and servants.
  • The main attributes of their house were the atrium and the large garden peristyle, surrounded by decorated triclinium and a garden complete with fountains, statues, and flowers.

• Early New England Society

  • New England's economy grew steadily over the entire colonial era despite the lack of a staple crop that could be exported.
  • Combined with a growing urban market for farm products, these factors allowed the economy to flourish despite the lack of technological innovation.
  • This image illustrates a New England kitchen in the colonial days, with a woman weaving and a pot hanging over the fireplace.

• America and WWI

  • The home front of the United States in World War I saw a systematic mobilization of the entire population and the economy to produce the soldiers, food supplies, munitions and money needed to win the war.
  • Therefore the federal government (and states as well) set up a multitude of temporary agencies to bring together the expertise necessary to redirect the economy and society into the production of munitions and food necessary for the war, as well as the production of ideas necessary to motivate the people.
  • The Food Administration asked Americans to grow their own vegetables (called Victory Gardens ) and to pledge to follow the call to preserve, consume less, and grow more in order to ensure that sufficient meat, wheat, fats, and sugars made it to the U.S. troops and American allies .
  • "Victory gardens" were encouraged by the U.S.

• Suggestions for improving the efficiency of building interiors

  • A Subway Sandwiches shop in Norman, Oklahoma, for example, cut its annual energy costs by $20,000, in part by installing ceiling fans in its kitchen.
  • Indoor gardens have a remarkable effect in reducing employee fatigue and can be instrumental in increasing productivity.

• The Aztec People

  • The Aztec economy can be divided into a political sector, under the control of nobles and kings, and a commercial sector that operated independently of the political sector.
  • The political sector of the economy centered on the control of land and labor by kings and nobles.
  • Agriculture played a large part in the economy and society of the Aztecs.
  • They also implemented a raised bed gardening technique by layering mud and plant vegetation in the lake in order to create moist gardens.
  • However, each family generally had a garden where they could grow maize, fruits, herbs, and medicinal plants on a smaller scale.

• Paleolithic Architecture

  • A typical Paleolithic society followed a hunter-gatherer economy.
  • A hearth outside served as the kitchen, while a smaller hearth inside kept people warm.