USDA highlights ‘small agriculture’ initiatives in online exhibit
As the U.S. grappled with the impacts of World War I, World War II and the Great Depression on the food system, USDA supported gardening and small food production initiatives to increase the supply of fresh food for the domestic population. Now, as COVID-19 has prompted a renewed interest in gardening, USDA’s National Agricultural Library is highlighting these initiatives in its digital exhibit, “Small Agriculture.”
“We are in the process of digitizing pretty much all of the print publications that USDA produced across its life span,” Emily Marsh, the designer of the exhibit, told Agri-Pulse. “We have hundreds of thousands of these digitized reports, but they don’t have a lot of meaning in isolation. My idea for the exhibit was to collect these smaller scale initiatives into a container that would give them some context.”
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