The lads have been doing a world war 1 memorial garden so we decided to also do a dig for victory bed to show what it would look like. We used information given from the Ministry of Agriculture in war times. They campaigned that planting your own food would make your rations go further as they believed that when war broke out there would be food shortages. 
The government increased production by reclaiming pasture and unused land for growing crops and Land Army girls were needed for extra agricultural labour and they took over all the jobs that their men would have done before being enlisted. these included – milking, lambing, ploughing, gathering crops, digging ditches, catching rats, maintenance, managing poultry, chopping trees or running sawmills. 
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