Food Security Is Just a Seedling Away: Plans for Starting a Victory Garden by Janet Melrose and Sheryl Normandeau During WWI and WWII and into the 1950s, the Canadian government encouraged its citizens to grow their own food. Not only would you be supplementing your own food supply at a time when rations were scarce and store shelves were growing bare, but people who grew gardens were contributing in their own way to the war effort. Growing a “victory garden” was a patriotic duty. In a time…
