Gertrude’s Garden Boots, 1920
“In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.” – Gertrude Read More …
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The Father of Genetics, 1856
“Someday, my hybrids will be used to crossbred doorknobs and blueberries. Imagine eating your doorknob, you’d never need a lock.” -Gregor Mendel The Father of Genetics As growers we throw around terms like “recessive” and “dominant” all the time. Read More …
Summer Monet, 1918
“And so with the sunshine and the great burst of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with summer” – The Great Gatsby, 1925 Read More …
Goats that feed on Dope, 1909
New York tribune, April 11, 1909 Article: Goats that feed on “Dope” The men who stare at goats The Mexican Herald is responsible for so much early misinformation in their own quest to criminalize cannabis in Mexico. Spewing crazy Read More …
Hemp for Victory, 1942
1943 hemp for victory poster Hemp for Victory In 1942 in prepreation for WW2 the United States Government decided to take drastic measures… To hire Hemp Farmers for Victory… Hemp for victory – Page 7 of the Read More …
Every garden a munition plant, 1918
“Every garden a munition plant” 1918 -WW1, National War Garden Commission poster
In her Victory Garden, 1945
“In her Victory Garden, the seeds grow all around, She plants you dig, she’s flipped her wig, Sweet Marihuana Brown” -Barney Bigard Sextet victory garden, M. Rose Sweet Marihuana Brown Boy she’s really fancy, the wildest chick in town. Read More …
Blitzed Gardens, 1942
Blitzed Gardens During the beginning of WW2, German bombers went on a night time raid over London. Wave after wave of bombers unloaded their cargo over the populated city. One of these bombs was dropped right next to Westminster Cathedral, Read More …
The Sower, 1850
“They tried to bury us but they didn’t know we were seeds.” – Mexican proverb The Sower – Jean-François Millet – 1850
A hemp field harvest before and after Kentucky, 1905.
A hemp field harvest before and after in Auvergne, Kentucky 1905. Cutting hemp with a binder and four-mule team circa 1905 The “tented hemp fields” after harvest, 1905