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
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office of War Information
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Economy and finance
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Office of War Information. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-368 (NAID 513818).
Text on the object
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]
