The Fenway Victory Gardens

In the midst of a several week apartment search (that has now, thankfully, come to a successful close), I learned of the existence of the Fenway Victory Gardens. As its name suggests, these gardens trace their origins to the days of WWII. In fact, these plots comprise what is the only continuously operating Victory Garden left. But what a joy to walk past plot after plot, observing the work of a hundred gardeners (some luckier than others). There are tracts of land that seem shockingly untamed for their city address and still other plots that are as trim and proper as the nearby brownstones. The diversity of the gardens and the sheer amount of them brought to mind the garden colonies of Berlin that endlessly fascinated me during my stay there-though in Berlin, each allotment possessed a small shed like structure which these of course lacked. Not to mention the gnomes and elves-
I lost hope that we could ever import something similar, but the Fenway Victory Gardens were a reminder that something similar has been here for a very long time.