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After Pearl Harbor was attacked, the United States government rebranded the War Gardens of World War I initiative as Victory Gardens for World War II. Victory Gardeners were tasked with growing productive and nourishing home-front and fruit and vegetable gardens in their yards, in containers, on small plots, at schools, in vacant lots, and on public lands.
In 1942, the U.S. government issued Garden for Victory: Guide for Planning the Local Victory Garden Program that outlined the goals of The Victory Garden Program. This guide and additional government educational resources and propaganda grew this wartime effort that fostered family and community gardens and the well-being of civilians, targeting urban residents to be involved. This World War II patriotic effort to grow fruits and vegetables nourished the health of individuals, families, and communities; and alleviated the shortages of agriculture and labor that had been reallocated to the war.
This digital library offers artifacts that document World War I and II United States War Gardens, Victory Gardens and Victory Gardeners for the purpose of educating audiences who are interested in gardening, sustainable agriculture, and community garden and food resources. This digital library contains media and information that libraries, educators, and individuals may use or adapt for related non-commercial educational programming and lessons or informational purposes.
This digital library is an educational project of a student from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Library and Information Science Program, class LIS 676 Creating Digital Libraries. All of the content used was purposefully aimed to be under public domain and open access license, and collected from other digital libraries that have explicitly stated such terms of reuse of content.
This digital library was created only to demonstrate the learning objectives of the class. This digital library was under no circumstances intending to breach copyright. In case you think we have done so, please contact us ASAP (gardasev@hawaii.edu), and we will make sure to remove the questionable content in the shortest possible period.