After the further unraveling of the global economy in October of 2008, the jobless numbers went much higher. In response, news shows have been doing stories on lessons learned from the Great Depression. Most of the talking heads focus on New Deal policies for resuscitating the economy after 1928. However, one of the most successful New Deal policies was the relief gardens that produced vegetables that went toward the mass production of canned soup distributed as relief Government relief gardens in communities hit hard by the recession would aid affected residents in various ways. Why not resurrect an agency like the New Deal's National Relief Agency (NRA)? Today's NRA would hire the unemployed with agricultural and business experience to convert blighted government owned spaces into relief gardens, and then work with local residents interested in creating and operating co-operative gardens. Tax relief could be given to people willing to allow relief gardens on their private property. The government could provide the local residents with a NRA staff, seed, top soil, fencing, gardening tools, training, and kitchen facilities for making soup and canning produce.
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