Tending 'Defiant Gardens' During Wartime [audio 9min]

From the Western Front trenches of World War I to the deserts of Iraq, soldiers have found comfort in the simple act of gardening. In Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime (Trinity University Press), Kenneth Helphand writes about war gardens -- not just victory gardens, grown in time of scarcity, but those planted on hostile fronts, including Eastern Europe's ghettos and the Japanese-American internment camps of World War II. Helphand calls the gardens an act of defiance. ~Visit website for extended report by Ketzel Levine, photos.