Victory Gardens

Victory Gardens. Photo by Verdant Landscape Group, LLC Food rationing was a part of life during both world wars, so the government urged Americans to pitch in by tending home garden. Victory gardens were no minor effort.

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When victory gardens came back to prominence during World War II, newspapers and magazines gleefully documented national gardening initiatives, with Life Magazine publishing full-page images of. In wartime, governments encouraged people to plant victory gardens not only to supplement their rations but also to boost morale. They got their start during World Wars I and II, when people grew their own produce to free up food for the war effort and help stabilize the country's food supply.

Families were encouraged to can their own vegetables to save commercial canned goods for the troops.

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Not only did these efforts aid in the war effort but they were considered patriotic; people felt like they were contributing through their gardening, and. Victory gardens, also called war gardens or food gardens for defense, were vegetable, fruit, and herb gardens planted at private residences and public parks in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Germany during World War I and World War II. When it started to look like the US and its allies would win the war, the name of the gardens was changed to Victory Gardens.