Victory garden

To reduce the pressure on the public food supply during World Wars I and II, ordinary Americans planted victory gardens, which were home vegetable and fruit gardens. By 1943, 20 million Americans had planted their own victory gardens, harvesting an estimated 9-10 million tons of fruits and vegetables -- it was the patriotic and American thing to do. But when the second world war ended everyone soon became complacent and neglected the need for homegrown foods.

How about we plant more of these victory gardens? Sharon Astyk and Aaron Newton explain why we should in their new book A Nation of Farmers: Defeating the Food Crisis on American Soil.