Vintage inspiration: Victory gardens

British WWII poster (via)

British WWII poster (via)

St. James Park victory garden, London, circa 2008 (via)

Besides being an excuse to share great vintage posters, I was charmed by the recent, 2-yr St. James Park Victory Garden project, meant to re-inspire that grow your own spirit from WWII.

(During WWII, the UK promoted victory gardens--using deftly-designed images, like those above--to combat food shortages).

A week of WWII rations, BBC2's "Supersizers Go Wartime" (via)

For more, a funny-wacky-wack BBC2 show (above) chomped on British food history and food from that era. See a YouTube clip.

P.S. WWII victory gardens were also heavily promoted in Hawaii and the U.S. I still remember older folks in Hawaii discussing it.