1940s garden

Victory Gardens were popular during World War I and World War II as a way to ensure a healthy food supply on the home front. Today, many people grow a home garden for the same reasons. We found this old poster and thought it worth sharing. As you can see, it's easy to fit a variety of healthy vegetables on a 25x50 foot

vintage photo from House Beautiful, Laguna Beach CA. garden

During WWI & WWII, families were encouraged to grow food in victory gardens. There are plenty of good reasons to bring victory gardens back!

When the writer Daisy Garnett and her husband, Nick Pearson, bought their Georgian house in Brixton, south London, in 2007 the garden initially looked like

Victory gardens helped during a time of need for more food and it's time we bring them back. It's a great way to help your finances and the environment.

While our grandparents may have been frugal from necessity, there's a lot we can learn from their thriftiness.

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This gallery documents Joanna Francis's 1940s home at Burton Stather near Scunthorpe. Life on the home front during the 1940s was very different to today's modern world. Until war broke out in September 1939, most women did not work outside the home. Many homes did not have running water in the house, water was carried in buckets from an outside well, or perhaps some were lucky enough to have a pump inside. To produce hot water it would be heated on top of a stove, often wood burning. That…