Victory Garden
Televised gardening program
A victory garden is a home vegetable garden planted to supplement food supplies during wartime, especially during World War I and World War II.
The name suggests that growing your own food contributes to the war effort by reducing strain on commercial agriculture and supply chains.
The term sometimes appears in contemporary contexts promoting food self-sufficiency: We started a victory garden during the pandemic.
- vegetableEdible plant part
- wartimePeriod of armed conflict
- homefrontCivilian sector during conflict
- patrioticDevoted to homeland
- Uncle SamGovernment as a man
harvest · seeds · seed packet · plot · tomatoes · canning · dig · hoe · backyard · WWII · home front · war effort · beans · carrots · homegrown · propaganda · poster · self-sufficiency
- WWII Symbolsswastika, iron cross, hammer and sickle, V sign, red star
Victory Gardenblack market
Illicit trading system
war profiteering · food rationing · scorched earth · defeatism · hoarding
Victory Gardenrationing
Limiting distribution during scarcity
breadline · soup kitchen · food scarcity · famine · starvation
Victory Gardenfallow field
Land deliberately left unplanted
wasteland · scorched earth · abandoned lot · concrete jungle · deforestation
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