Concepts and Movements

Victory Garden

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General Reference

Home, Crafts and Hobbies Atlas. "Victory Garden." Accessed August 29, 2026. https://dev-home.interactiveatlas.org/concepts/victory-garden.

APA Style

Home, Crafts and Hobbies Atlas. (n.d.). Victory Garden. Retrieved August 29, 2026, from https://dev-home.interactiveatlas.org/concepts/victory-garden

BibTeX

@misc{home,craftsandhobbiesatlas-victory-garden,
  author = {Home, Crafts and Hobbies Atlas},
  title = {Victory Garden},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-home.interactiveatlas.org/concepts/victory-garden},
  note = {Accessed August 29, 2026}
}

Victory gardens were vegetable, fruit and herb gardens planted at private homes and public parks during the First and Second World Wars to supplement food rations and boost civilian morale. In the United States, Charles Lathrop Pack's National War Garden Commission, organized in March 1917, produced more than five million gardens and over 1.2 billion dollars in foodstuffs by war's end; by May 1943, eighteen million American victory gardens, urban and rural, were supplying about one third of the vegetables the country consumed. Canada ran a parallel campaign from 1917, and the practice was applied to Britain's own wartime allotment movement.

Facts

Origin Year

1917 1

Origin

Britain ran its own wartime home food-growing campaign, under which the number of allotments roughly doubled by 1943. 2

Cross-Tradition Connections