It was about a year ago that master gardener and City Grange garden center founder LaManda Joy told me about the Great Grow Along, her plot to revive the Victory Garden movement, the worldwide World War II-era gardening campaign that provided food security for millions during disruptions to the supply chain. “Maybe this is the moment I was born for,” she told me.
If that schedule looks like too much to keep up with, each session will be available online to registrants a week after the event. But the weather for next weekend here in USDA Planting Zone 6a will still be much too cold to put any plants into the ground anyway, so you’ll have time to kill. Your jigsaw puzzles and sourdough can wait for the next pandemic.