How victory gardens crop up during times of crisis [Video]

Amid high grocery prices and U.S. tariff threats, Bill Belsey is fighting back with seeds and soil in his small “victory garden.”

“When Trump announced … what at least I interpreted as sort of economic warfare against Canada, it took me back to my parents’ generation,” Belsey told CBC Radio’s Cost of Living from his home in Cochrane, Alta.

His father served in the Second World War, and his mother, like many Canadians left behind, contributed to the war effort by starting a victory garden.

“There was a sort of communal kind of feeling like, yes, we’re in this together. And so they started planting, even though they weren’t really farmers or gardeners,” said Belsey.

“And I got thinking about that a little bit and it dawned on me that, look, I can’t change world events, but there are things I could do, and this is one of those.”

Victory gardens, promoted as a way to ease food shortages …