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title: Grow Your Own Food [1]
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-grow-your-own-food-zero-1939/
description: A painted signboard reading 'grow your own' stands in dark soil above a leek, two turnips and a stalk of celery whose shapes spell out 'food'.
section: Collection
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[![Grow Your Own Food \[1\], 1939 UK poster: A painted signboard reading 'grow your own' stands in dark soil above a leek, two](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-grow-your-own-food-zero-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-grow-your-own-food-zero-1939.jpg)

# Grow Your Own Food [1]

A painted signboard reading 'grow your own' stands in dark soil above a leek, two turnips and a stalk of celery whose shapes spell out 'food'. The tell is the everyday allotment crop presented as the citizen's own contribution; there is no named authority, threat or promise on the sheet.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
grow
your own

ZERO
PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY FOSH & CROSS LTD., LONDON. 51-3540
```

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