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Your Victory Garden Counts More Than Ever!

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During World War II, the Agriculture Department encouraged the public to plant victory gardens everywhere from parks to city rooftops. By 1943, 20 million victory gardens supplied one third of the vegetables in the United States.

(U.S. Agriculture Department. War Food Administration poster. Artist: Morley - public domain)


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