A Victory Garden is a home kitchen garden planted, during wartime, to relieve food shortages and help win the war.
All across America people are returning to growing Victory Gardens, a practice that started during World War I, then continued during World War II and is once again returning. In
1943 First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt revived the planting of vegetables on White House grounds, a practice that began with our early presidents, and is once again being renewed by the Obama family while in the White House.
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