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title: 'Plant a Victory Garden: Our food is fighting'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/plant-a-victory-garden-our-food-is-fighting-1943/
description: Two adults bend over to work a garden plot while a boy in a sailor-style cap looks into a basket of corn, tomatoes, carrots and cabbage.
section: Collection
---

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[![Plant a Victory Garden: Our food is fighting, 1943 US poster: Two adults bend over to work a garden plot while a boy](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/plant-a-victory-garden-our-food-is-fighting-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/plant-a-victory-garden-our-food-is-fighting-1943.jpg)

# Plant a Victory Garden: Our food is fighting

Two adults bend over to work a garden plot while a boy in a sailor-style cap looks into a basket of corn, tomatoes, carrots and cabbage. A blue banner reads 'Our food is fighting', carrying the vocabulary of war onto home vegetables, and the foot line ties gardening to ration stretching.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
PLANT A VICTORY GARDEN
OUR FOOD
IS FIGHTING
A GARDEN WILL MAKE YOUR RATIONS GO FURTHER
OWI Poster No. 34.  Additional copies may be obtained upon request from the Division of Public Inquiries, Office of War Information, Washington, D. C.
[imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943—O—506017]
```

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