Let’s take a little field trip back to 1943. Go ahead and hop in
those time machines! We’re going to explore the day and age when
the world was at war and our food supply was in peril. American
Life in 1943 Think about this: the average family in 1943 was
living on $29.00 a week. Food staples were rationed out to
families in order to provide for the troops. As you can imagine,
fresh fruits and vegetables were in short supply. In order to
keep the nation from starvation, the US Government encouraged
folks to help out in any way that they could. Propaganda posters
popped up in every town urging families to plant ‘Victory
Gardens’ to provide their own produce. War Gardens for Victory
Our Food is Fighting Sow the Seeds of Victory Over 20 million
American families took up the call for ‘victory.’ They
collaborated with friends and neighbors and took control of
their own food supply. Even schools got involved in the cause by
planting gardens in schoolyards to provide supplemental food for
school lunches. The number