Kathy Atwater - On gardens (clip)
Interviewed by Monica Palmeira on March 29, 2012
Kathy Atwater (KA): Right across the street, that’s my grandmother’s house. But the yard behind it.
Monica Palmeira (MP): Oh, yeah.
KA: People –neighbors would plant–
MP: Really?
KA: –Plant their vegetables and whatever, and then of course everybody would share. At my home, my daddy had a small garden right beside the house. I think everybody had–pretty much had a garden.
KA: Everyone had a little something, yeah.
MP: Yeah, yeah. Everybody had a garden. The ones in this big house right here. 323 Lindsay. They had a garden in the back. This right here was a garden, where this house is now. That was a garden. And, so it was like a garden almost every other house.
KA: Wow.
MP: Yeah. Where Ms. Velma Perry lives, there was a garden behind her house.
KA: Oh, nice.
MP: So you got fresh vegetables. You got tomatoes, you got string beans, you got okra, collards, cabbage, onions, strawberries. You got just – cucumbers. All different kinds of vegetables.
KA: People were growing all those things.
MP: Mhm.
KA: Wow.
MP: It was great.
