© 2023 WFAE
90.7 Charlotte 93.7 Southern Pines 90.3 Hickory 106.1 Laurinburg
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Tending 'Defiant Gardens' During Wartime

From the Western Front trenches of World War I to the deserts of Iraq, soldiers have found comfort in the simple act of gardening.

Kenneth Helphand, writes about war gardens — not just victory gardens, grown in time of scarcity, but those planted on hostile fronts, including Eastern Europe's ghettos and the Japanese-American internment camps of World War II. Helphand calls the gardens an act of defiance.

Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.

Ketzel Levine, NPR /

Tags
United States & World Morning Edition
Ketzel Levine
NPR Senior Correspondent Ketzel Levine reports for Morning Edition.