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Excerpt from "Still Keep 'Em Growing"

Written by H. W. Hochbaum, Chairman, Victory Garden Committee, U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Published in House and Garden, January 1944.

"As long as the war lasts and for years after we're going to need all the home-grown and home-preserved food we can possibly raise. Without it, we'll be sunk."

"Still Keep 'Em Growing" is a good example of the frequent magazine and newspaper articles that encouraged Americans on the home front to pull together to help achieve victory overseas. Originally published in the January 1944 issue of House and Garden, the article is a call to arms. The author, H. W. Hochbaum, chairman of the federal government's Victory Garden Committee, praises victory gardeners (those who planted small private gardens to add to the nation's commercial food production) for their highly successful efforts in 1942 and...