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Victory Gardens

20 min 26 sec/104 shots

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This wartime instructional film follows the Holder family as they plan, plant, maintain, and harvest a quarter-acre victory garden in northern Maryland. It demonstrates crop succession, soil preparation, pest and disease control, and food preservation while promoting homegrown vegetables as vital to family nutrition and the national war effort.

Provenance and rights

Collection: Prelinger Archives
Original title: Victory Gardens
Original link: Open on Internet Archive
Rights: public_domain

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