Plan and Grow for Winter: Planned Crops for Garden Wealth, Assure the Family's Winter Health

Two drawings of a family: parents and three children lying on a rug over a crop-planning chart, then the same family at a table with cooked greens. 'Plain folks' tell: ordinary smiling family members stand in for the viewer, so planting for winter reads as a shared household habit.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Plain folks

Date: 1939
Period: Second World War
Made by: British government via His Majesty's Stationery Office; illustrator signed 'Falconer' (reading uncertain); printed by H. Manly & Son Ltd., London
Region: Western and Central Europe
Country: United Kingdom
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: State
Regime: Churchill Government
Leader: Winston Churchill
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Mobilize or secure compliance
Themes: Home front, Health
Event: World War II
Regime: Churchill wartime government
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)
British government via His Majesty's Stationery Office, c. 1939-1945. US National Archives (NARA, WWII Foreign Posters, NAID 44266889).

Text on the object

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

Plan and Grow for Winter
Planned crops for garden wealth
Assure the family's winter health
[small print:] Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by H. Manly & Son Ltd. London N.22. 51-2962