This site has photos and examples of wartime posters exhorting citizens to plant vegetable gardens and can produce. victory gardens - Oldhouseweb.com JT
That's probably one of the best civillian ideas of the war. Imagine how much supplies were saved as a result of that.
Good coverage of the British Version here: Home Sweet Home Front - DIG FOR VICTORY I love this poster, excellent design:
What is more is all that food would have been "organic" before that word was used as it is now. Lot healther back then too.
it is scientifically proven that despite the small amount of food available on rationing in Britain the population was far healthier and fitter than now.
Yes? Then why was brucelosis named 'Malta fever' then? Brucellosis is from domestic animals (Cattle, Pigs, Dogs & Goats) and transmitted to humans. Malta fever is aligned to unpasteurised milk and bad handling practises in dairy products like cheese. This disease is not aligned to vegetables. The cause of many diseases these days is that the minerals in the soil, eg magnesium is not as great as it once was. The problems today are the diets of processed foods which clog the intestinal tract and restrict the amount of nutrients the body can absorb while the food travels through the system. The bodies immune system will fix most diseases however the processed foods clog the intestinal tract, restrict the nutrient intake to such a degree that the immune system is unable to cope.
Exactly, due to rationing there was a more equitable distribution than it used to have before that. And also the fact that more food was grown at home, making it better and healthier. From a farming family even I have seen the changes in agricultural practices in the last 20 years. After the war it was maximum productivity and be damned the countryide. Pesticides, herbicides and 'bag muck' love that term, were used prolifantly to get the best crop. In the last 10-15 years and gaining pace is the pre-war agricultural practices. Leave the wildflower border around fields. About 4 feet deep it gives a habitat for insects and birds which then pick off a lot of the parasites on the crop, drastically reducing the need for herbicides and pesticides and giving a healthier crop. Wash your tomatoes before eating them? The chemicals are on the inside as well folks. Now it's work with the land and not against it as arose from the need for more food in the war. Now the soil is being respected again and the old rotational crop systems are coming back in. As Spidge said the minerals in the ground are low, and that is because farmers in the last 60 years have been growing the same crop year after year on it. There needs to be a rotation. Wheat takes all the nutrients, beans the following year replace the nitrogen and other minerals, after that leave it fallow with just grazing (good manure there) then plant with tats to clear the ground of weeds and away you go again. The farming subsidies have a hell of a lot to answer for. :mad111:
