The Victory Garden Initiative

Season 5 Episode 3 | 26m 49s | Video has closed captioning.

Meet Milwaukee's Gretchen Mead and discover her Victory Garden Initiative, a program in which volunteers create raised bed gardens throughout the city to promote food growth in urban spaces. Host Kyle Cherek helps build gardens and meets the lucky folks receiving them. We catch up with Gretchen four months later to see the progress at the Victory Garden's own urban farm, Concordia Gardens.

Aired: 01/22/15

Rating: TV-G

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The Victory Garden Initiative

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