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Mothers in World War I helped in the factories, were nurses, or stayed home with the children and grew food in victory gardens.
Victory Gardens (and other gardens in other nations) were planted to reduce the need for fruits and vegetables under the ration programs and to increase the amount of fresh vegetables people could consume. Any one who had excess vegetables, berries, fruit could share them with people who could not grow gardens.
Americans grew their own fruits and vegetables in small backyard gardens in order to allow the commercially grown crops to go toward the war effort and sent to the troops overseas. It also served to make Americans at home feel they were doing their part to win the war.
In WWI rationing food was a very big deal in America. President Wilson put Herbert Hoover in charge of the USA. Food Administration in order to convince Americans to conserve food. People then began planting victory gardens so that they would be rationing but not starving or killing of the population.
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During WW1, Charles Lathrop Pack organized the US National War Garden Commission in 1917. Victory gardens were planted in private and public lands and reduced the strain on the food supply strain as well as increased the morale of the homefront.
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Recycling metals and rubber for war materials grow own vegetables in "Victory" gardens
Victory gardens. Everything was "victory this" and "victory that" in WWII, replacing the buzz word "Liberty", which served the same function during the first war (when sauerkraut became "Liberty Cabbage").
Victory gardens were gardens maintained by individuals to reduce the strain of the infrastructure. The government encouraged people to raise and can their own food.
They watered their victory gardens, worked fire trucks, ext.
Mothers in World War I helped in the factories, were nurses, or stayed home with the children and grew food in victory gardens.
The women took on jobs, they had wheatless and meatless days, and they planted victory gardens.