The garden of victory , also called the battle garden or the food garden for defense , is a vegetable garden, fruit and spice grown in private residences and parks common in the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia and Germany during World War I and World War II. George Washington Carver wrote a farming treaty and promoted the idea of ​​what he called "The Garden of Victory". They are used in conjunction with Rationing Stamps and Cards to reduce pressure on general food supplies. In addition to indirectly assisting the war effort, these gardens are also regarded as "civilian" civil drivers in the garden who can feel empowered by the contribution of their labor and are rewarded by growing products. This makes the winning garden a part of everyday life in front of the house.
Video Victory garden
World War I
Canada
Victory Gardens became popular in Canada in 1917. Under the campaign of the Ministry of Agriculture, "Vegetable Garden for Every Home", townspeople, towns and villages used the yard space to grow vegetables for personal use and war effort. In the city of Toronto, women's organizations bring expert gardener to schools to make schoolchildren and their families interested in gardening. In addition to gardening, homeowners are encouraged to keep chickens in their yards for the purpose of collecting eggs. The result is a huge production of potatoes, beets, cabbage, and other beneficial vegetables.
United States
In March 1917, Charles Lathrop Pack organized the US National War Park Commission and launched a war-park campaign. Food production has declined dramatically during World War I, particularly in Europe, where agricultural labor has been recruited into military service and agricultural remains are destroyed by the conflict. Pack and others argue that food supplies can be greatly increased without the use of agricultural land and labor, and without the use of significant means of transportation necessary for war effort. The campaign promotes the cultivation of public and private land available, generating over five million US gardens and foodstuff production over $ 1.2 billion at the end of the war.
President Woodrow Wilson said that "Food will win the war." To support the home gardening efforts, the US School of Army School School was launched through the Education Bureau, and funded by the War Department in the direction of Wilson.
Maps Victory garden
World War II
Australia
Australia launched the Dig for Victory campaign in 1942 because rationing and shortages of agricultural workers began to affect food supplies. The situation began to subside in 1943; However, home gardens continued throughout the war.
English
In the UK, "digging up victories" uses lots of land like used land, railroads, orchards and ornamental grasses, while sports fields and golf courses are taken for farming or growing vegetables. Sometimes the sports field is left like that but used for sheep grazing, not cut down (for example see Lawrence Sheriff School Ã, § Effect of the Second World War). In 1943, the number of rations doubled to 1,400,000, including rural, urban, and suburban plots. The CH Middleton radio program In Your Garden reaches millions of interested listeners asking for advice on growing potatoes, leeks and the like, and helps to ensure communal feelings in contributing to the war effort (as well as practical responses to food rationing). The County Herb Committees were formed to collect medicinal plants when the German blockade created a deficiency, for example in Digitalis purpurea (Foxglove) used to regulate heartbeat. The garden of victory is planted in the backyard and on the roof of an apartment building, with a vacant lot that is sometimes "snatched for war effort!" and used as a cornfield or pond. During World War II, some parts of the grass were generally hijacked for plots in Hyde Park, London to promote the movement, while parts of plants growing in the shadow of the Albert Memorial also pointed to everyone, high and low, entering into the national struggle. Both Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle have a vegetable garden planted at the instigation of King George VI to help produce food.
United States
In the midst of regular food allotment in the UK, the US Department of Agriculture encouraged the planting of victory gardens during World War II. About a third of the vegetables produced by the United States come from the garden of victory. It was emphasized to urban Americans and suburbs that the proceeds from their garden would help to lower the price of vegetables needed by the US Department of War to feed troops, thus saving money that could be spent elsewhere in the military: "Our food is struggling, "said one of the US posters. In May 1943, there were 18 million victory gardens in the United States - 12 million in the city and 6 million on the farm.
Eleanor Roosevelt planted the Victory Park in the yard of a white house in 1943. Roosevelts was not the first president to set up a garden in a white house. Woodrow Wilson grazed the sheep in the southern courtyard during World War I to avoid mowing the grass. Eleanor Roosevelt's garden instead serves as a political message of patriotic duty for gardening, though Eleanor does not tend to his own garden. While Victory Gardens is described as patriotic duty, 54% of Americans surveyed said they planted the garden for economic reasons while only 20% mentioned patriotism.
Although the Department of Agriculture initially objected to Eleanor Roosevelt's institution of winning gardens in the White House grounds, fearing that such a movement would harm the food industry, basic information about gardening emerged in the public service brochure distributed by the Department of Agriculture, as well as by agribusiness companies such as International Harvester and Beech-Nut. The fruits and vegetables harvested in the plot of this house and community are estimated to reach 9,000,000 to 10,000,000 short tons (8,200,000-9,100,000 t) in 1944, an amount equal to all commercial production of fresh vegetables.
Victory Garden movement also tried to unite front-front. The local community will hold festivals and competitions to showcase the harvest of everyone growing in their own garden. While the park movement brings together several local communities, the park movement separates minorities like African-Americans. At the harvest, separate gifts were given to "colored people," in the same category, long-held traditions in deeper Delaware and South, as well as in Baltimore.
In New York City, the lawns around the empty "Riverside" are reserved for the victory garden, as are part of Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. The slogan "grow on its own, be your own", is a slogan that begins in times of war and refers to the growing family and their own food drift in the garden of victory.
Postwar
In 1946, with the war over, many Britons did not plant victory gardens, in the hope of greater food availability. However, the shortfall remained in England, and rationing remained for at least some food until 1954.
The ground in the center of Sutton's Garden Sutton in Sutton, London was first used as a victory park during World War II; before it has been used as recreational ground with a tennis court. The land continued to be used as a quota by local residents for more than 50 years until they were evicted by landowners in 1997. The land had fallen into disuse.
Fenway Victory Gardens at Back Bay Fens Boston, Massachusetts and the Dowling Community Garden in Minneapolis, Minnesota remain active as the last surviving public examples of World War II. Most of the plots at Fenway Victory Gardens now feature flowers as vegetable substitutes while the Dowling Community Park maintains its focus on vegetables.
Since the turn of the 21st century, interest in winning gardens has grown. Campaigns promoting such gardens have sprung up in the form of new victory gardens in public spaces, winning garden websites and blogs, as well as petitions to renew national campaigns for victory parks and to encourage the reestablishment of victory gardens on the White House lawn. In March 2009, First Lady Michelle Obama planted a 1,100-square-foot kitchen garden (100 m 2 ) on the White House lawn, the first since Eleanor Roosevelt, to raise awareness about healthy food.
Movies
Some countries produce many films of information about growing the garden of victory.
Ã, Canada
- World War II
- He Planted for Victory (1943)
Ã, United Kingdom
- World War I
- Grow Vegetables For War Enterprises
- War Garden Parade
- World War II
- Dig To Victory! (1940, 1941, 1942)
- Children's Amusement Park (1942)
- Compost Fertilizer to Feed (1942)
- Dig for Victory (1943)
- Winter Green (1943)
- Blitz on Bugs (1944)
- Dig for Victory - Proceed According to Plan (1944)
Ã, United States
- World War II
- Victory Gardens (1941, 1942, 1943)
- Barney Bear Victory Park (1942)
- As Ye Sow (1945)
Television
Historical documentaries and reality television series such as The 1940s House, Wartime Farm and Coal House's second season put the modern family in a re-created war setting, including digging a winning garden.
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