Every Available Piece of Land Must Be Cultivated - Grow Your Own Food - Supply Your Own Cookhouse
A table set with a plate of vegetables, a forward cap and a mug has a fork and knife standing in it, while its legs are a garden fork and spade planted in a seeded plot. The picture makes the link between digging and the meal on the table; the slogan 'every available piece of land must be cultivated' is a general appeal, with no figures on yield.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- British government, printed for H.M. Stationery Office by J. Weiner Ltd., London; artist Abram Games (issuing department not named on the poster)
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- 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 Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (UK Crown copyright, 50 years from publication, expired before 1996; no URAA restoration)
H.M. Stationery Office; artist Abram Games; US National Archives, WWII Foreign Posters (NARA 44266552).
Text on the object
..every available piece of land must be cultivated GROW YOUR OWN FOOD supply your own cookhouse PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY J. WEINER LTD., LONDON, W.C.1. 51-4749 P.R. 62 [signature:] A. GAMES
