Victory Gardens
Stephanie Hinnershitz
The National WWII Museum
Urban Farm DB summary
Published 26 November 2024, this article from The National WWII Museum describes the U.S. Victory Garden movement of 1942-1945, during which Americans tended more than 20 million gardens, producing 42 percent of the nation's fresh produce (10 billion pounds) in 1943 alone. It also notes that 120,000 incarcerated Japanese Americans were made to garden in internment camps.
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- 20,000,000 count
garden count(victory gardens)
Social- region
- United States
- year
- 1942-1945
- method
- more than 20 million gardens tended
- 42 %
produce share of national output(victory gardens)
Yield- region
- United States
- year
- 1943
- method
- null
- 10 billion_lbs
produce volume(victory gardens)
Yield- region
- United States
- year
- 1943
- method
- null
- 120,000 count
participant count(japanese american incarceration gardens)
Social- region
- United States (incarceration camps)
- year
- 1942-1945
- method
- null
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