You can use the land you have to grow the foods you need
Make America Strong set, poster 7: a photograph of a family weeding and planting a vegetable garden beside their house, a mother with a baby pointing toward the rows. The headline says 'You can use the land you have to grow the foods you need'. The whole household at work gives a plain-folks, everyone-is-doing-it look; the bandwagon element is implied by the image, not stated.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Government (Make America Strong poster set; issuing agency not named on sheet), printed by U.S. Government Printing Office
- 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)
U.S. Government Printing Office. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1313F (NAID 514945).
Text on the object
YOU CAN USE the land you have to grow the foods you need [imprint:] Make America Strong (set of 13 posters) . . . . . Poster No. 7 [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1941—O-292318
