victory gardens
Homefront food cultivation
Victory gardens were vegetable plots cultivated by civilians during World War I and especially World War II to supplement food supplies and boost morale.
The government encouraged home gardening so commercial produce could go to troops overseas.
The term occasionally revives for community gardening movements emphasizing food security or self-sufficiency.
- wartimePeriod of armed conflict
- war effortOrganized wartime resource mobilization
- home frontCivilian sector during war
- rationingLimiting distribution during scarcity
- ration booksWartime supply allocation documents
vegetables · food shortages · World War I · subsistence · civic pride · cultivation · seed packets · Eleanor Roosevelt · propaganda posters · self-sufficiency · fruits · produce · food processing · patriotic duty · war bonds · harvest · WWII · food security
- WWII Homefrontwar bonds, war effort, ration books, scrap drives, blackouts
- 1940sWWII, D-Day, Pearl Harbor, Normandy, VE Day
- gardeningflowers, seeds, soil, plants, planting
- wartimerationing, war economy, war bonds, war effort, evacuations
- WWIID-Day, Pearl Harbor, Normandy, Hiroshima, Holocaust
- war effortwar bonds, liberty bonds, Red Cross, USO, scrap drives
victory gardenscommercial farms
Large profit-oriented agricultural operations
industrial agriculture · agribusiness · corporate farming · factory farming · factory farms
victory gardenswar profiteering
Exploiting conflict for gain
hoarding · conspicuous consumption · food waste · defeatism · draft dodging
victory gardensornamental gardens
Landscaped spaces for visual appeal
golf courses · fallow land · manicured lawns · pleasure gardens · lawns
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