User:Squiggl/Victory garden

 Sandbox for Victory Gardens 

- The lead section could be lengthened with more information, possibly with the most important types of plants planted.

- Also maybe some statistics for how much Victory Gardens helped reduce pressure on food supply.

-In the Canada Section, no statistics are listed for how much the Victory Gardens helped.

-The Australia section has almost nothing to it, especially in comparison to some of the other sections.

-explicitly explain the Australian campaign.

- Under the Canada section, it says that Victory Gardens became popular in 1917 but gives no explanation as to why or how.

-Add a summary to the introduction.

-Remove or add a new link for Peter Fraiser in the "Dig On For Victory" poster.

-Include information about what specific lands were used.

-Add citations to the Japanese interment section.

Australia Edit:

Australia launched a Dig for Victory campaign in 1942 as rationing, drought, and a shortage of agricultural workers began to affect food supplies. The campaign was well received by the media as well as the large populous, as many Australians were already self-sufficient in growing fruits and vegetables. The YWCA created "Garden Army Week" to advertise the newly created "Garden Army" which exclusively supported agriculture and crop production. The situation began to ease in 1943; however, home gardens continued throughout the war.

https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/encyclopedia/homefront/victory_gardens

US ww1:

In March 1917, Charles Lathrop Pack organized the US National War Garden Commission and launched the war garden campaign. Food production had fallen dramatically during World War I, especially in Europe, where agricultural labor had been recruited into military service and remaining farms devastated by the conflict. Pack and others conceived the idea that the supply of food could be greatly increased without the use of land and manpower already engaged in agriculture, and without the significant use of transportation facilities needed for the war effort. The campaign promoted the cultivation of available private and public lands, resulting in over five million gardens in the U.S. The current Food Administrator, Herbert Hoover, had the ambitious goal of sending 20 million tons of food to the war front by July 1919, although this number was reduced to 4 million in actuality. The campaign was a huge success, leading to foodstuff production exceeding $1.2 billion by the end of the war.

https://www.theworldwar.org/learn/about-wwi/victory-gardens-world-war-i

https://www.hoover.org/research/food-weapon

US ww2, ABC:

During the heat of World War II, artist D.H. Bedford created a brochure for the U.S. Department of Agriculture summarizing everything the American populous would need to know about gardening. This was done in order to increase the production of crops from victory gardens, as food shortages on the war front were becoming a real problem. This brochure, "ABC of Victory Gardens", highlighted the importance of these victory gardens, as well as showing how to properly grow, harvest, and preserve a variety of crops.

https://archive.org/details/ABC_of_Victory_Gardens_Backyard_Farming_Made_Easy_For_All__front_cover_image

https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-collections/artifact/297048/#slide=gs-219635

Japanese Internment Camps Edit

In Japanese Internment Camps, government officials encouraged Victory Gardens to promote self-sufficiency and conserve resources. Individuals who were previously farmers before internment began growing vegetable gardens within camp boundaries. The movement toward Victory Gardens did not serve a patriotic purpose for the Japanese people, instead, the gardens supplemented government-issued meals with fresh vegetables and offered edibles reminiscent of home. Additionally, the relocation of Japanese-Americans increased the usage of victory gardens. Many vegetable and fruit farms were Japanese-owned on the West Coast. In preparation for the mass relocation of individuals, United States citizens were encouraged by government agencies, newspapers, and radio stations to utilize urban farming in preparation for a shortage of fresh fruits and vegetables.

https://lj.uwpress.org/content/23/1/1

https://www.ilsos.gov/departments/archives/teaching_packages/illinois_at_war/doc10.html