Like many gardeners, when the Covid-19 pandemic hit and people started shopping for food in bulk, I wondered whether I should grow a victory garden. Victory gardens were large kitchen gardens homeowners kept during World Wars I and II as a way of ensuring food for themselves and others. Since a lot of rural people left the country to fight in the wars, the agriculture industry became strained. So the government started a campaign to transform every backyard and public park into land for food cultivation. It was a citizen’s…