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Collected Item: “Getting really excited that I'm actually growing edible food in the garden!”

Give your story a title.

Getting really excited that I'm actually growing edible food in the garden!

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

screenshot

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

This post about a Canadian nutritionist reveals an individual's experience gardening this past summer during the pandemic. The caption includes how this person picked up gardening as a new hobby during lockdown and found how rewarding it was. This post will serve as a valuable story in how gardening became a popular activity for Canadians and offer one person's journey, including challenges, in starting a garden.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

#hist9801, #canada

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://www.instagram.com/dev_carlsen/?hl=en

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Ivy Cooley

Give this story a date.

2020-08-06
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