"What's Left Behind" by the band Victory Garden
popular culture victory garden memory
Cover art for the band Victory Garden. Once again, another band chose to name themselves Victory Garden. They also don't particularly talk about growing vegetables or World War II, however, the tone throughout their music is somewhat haunted and sad, talking about things that have been left behind. This fits with the mood of the Second World War. Men went away, to the other side of the world, and left their families behind. Even though they were so far away they could not forget what was left behind. The music that they sing reproduced the feelings from the darker and sadder side of the growing a victory garden during the Second World War. These thoughts are equally valid and equally present in growing a garden as the pride and patriotic feeling that accompanied it. By naming the band Victory Garden, this band is continuing the memory of the World War II victory garden.
Victory Garden
iTunes, Apple Inc.
2011
iTunes, Apple Inc.
English
A Living Classroom
Contemporary Government-endorsed gardening
Children watering their plants. In our current time, government-endorsed gardening has once again become an important political policy. Through the urging of Michelle Obama, the Let's Move! was established. This program encourages children to engage in healthy life styles by eating healthy foods, growing their own gardens, and exercising. This policy has been implemented in a number of schools, and children are now learning about where food comes from, and are able to experience what it is like to tend a garden. This policy is similar to the victory garden policy of the Second World War, and it copies the implementation pattern of introducing and endorsing gardening to children via the education system.
Michelle Obama
Obama, Michelle. American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America. New York: Crown Publishers, 2012. 149.
Crown Publishers, New York
2012
Michelle Obama
Crown Publishers
English
A Living Classroom
Contemporary Government-endorsed gardening
Boy watering the plants in his garden. In our current time, government-endorsed gardening has once again become an important political policy. Through the urging of Michelle Obama, the Let's Move! was established. This program encourages children to engage in healthy life styles by eating healthy foods, growing their own gardens, and exercising. This policy has been implemented in a number of schools, and children are now learning about where food comes from, and are able to experience what it is like to tend a garden. This policy is similar to the victory garden policy of the Second World War, and it copies the implementation pattern of introducing and endorsing gardening to children via the education system.
Michelle Obama
Obama, Michelle. American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America. New York: Crown Publishers, 2012. 149.
Crown Publishers, New York
2012
Michelle Obama
Crown Publsiher
English
Album Art Victory Garden: John & Mary
Popular culture victory garden
Cover Art for an album titled Victory Garden. Out of all of the songs, albums, and bands who use the name Victory Garden, this is the album with the closest ties to nature. Many of the songs on this album refer to some part of nature, even though they do not directly address gardening. Nonetheless, this band helps to continue the nostalgic legacy and memory of the World War II victory garden into contemporary society.
John & Mary
1991
iTunes, Apple Inc.
English
American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America
Contemporary Governmetn-endorsed gardening
The cover of Michelle Obama's book. This book demonstrates the continuity of the policy of government-endorsed gardening. The book includes advice and instruction on gardening and it also talks about how to make different types of meals using the food that you grew.
Michelle Obama
Obama, Michelle. American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America. New York: Crown Publishers, 2012. Cover.
Crown Publishers, New York
2012
Michelle Obama
Crown Publishers
English
April 1, 1944- Statement Encouraging Victory Gardens
Presidential Statement
Government endorsed gardening. Food is important in fighting the war.
"even the small gardens help"
In his speeches, FDR constantly emphasized the importance that food supply played in helping the war effort. It was an easy for for any home front citizen to do their part by growing their own food.
Franklin Roosevelt
Gerhard Peters & John T. Woolley
UCSB: The American Presidency Project
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=16505&st=&st1=
April 1, 1944
English
Be a Victory Farm Volunteer
Agriculture Propaganda Poster
Photograph of a boy and a Girl with a field full of people harvesting crops. This propaganda poster endorsed the idea that it was important for the population to grow food. Furthermore, this poster demonstrates that tending the food supply was an easy way for children and teens to be part of the war effort. Finally, this poster emphasizes the voluntary aspect of increasing the food supply.
United States Department of Agriculture
University of North Texas Digital Library
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc569/
U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington D.C.
1943
English
Brooklyn School Makes Empty Spaces Bloom
Contemporary Government-endorsed gardening
A girl tending her garden plot at school, holding up her carrot that she grew. In our current time, government-endorsed gardening has once again become an important political policy. Through the urging of Michelle Obama, the Let's Move! was established. This program encourages children to engage in healthy life styles by eating healthy foods, growing their own gardens, and exercising. This policy has been implemented in a number of schools, and children are now learning about where food comes from, and are able to experience what it is like to tend a garden. This policy is similar to the victory garden policy of the Second World War, and it copies the implementation pattern of introducing and endorsing gardening to children via the education system.
Michelle Obama
Obama, Michelle. American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America. New York: Crown Publishers, 2012. 141.
Crown Publishers, New York
2012
Michelle Obama
Crown Publishers
English
Brooklyn Schools Made Empty Spaces Bloom
Contemporary government-endorsed gardening
School garden planter. In our current time, government-endorsed gardening has once again become an important political policy. Through the urging of Michelle Obama, the Let's Move! was established. This program encourages children to engage in healthy life styles by eating healthy foods, growing their own gardens, and exercising. This policy has been implemented in a number of schools, and children are now learning about where food comes from, and are able to experience what it is like to tend a garden. This policy is similar to the victory garden policy of the Second World War, and it copies the implementation pattern of introducing and endorsing gardening to children via the education system.
Michelle Obama
Obama, Michelle. American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America. New York: Crown Publishers, 2012. 140.
Crown Publishers, New York
2012
Michelle Obama
Crown Publishers
English
Brooklyn Schools Made Empty Spaces Bloom
Contemporary Government-endorsed gardening
School children planting and growing a garden. In our current time, government-endorsed gardening has once again become an important political policy. Through the urging of Michelle Obama, the Let's Move! was established. This program encourages children to engage in healthy life styles by eating healthy foods, growing their own gardens, and exercising. This policy has been implemented in a number of schools, and children are now learning about where food comes from, and are able to experience what it is like to tend a garden. This policy is similar to the victory garden policy of the Second World War, and it copies the implementation pattern of introducing and endorsing gardening to children via the education system.
Michelle Obama
Obama, Michelle. American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America. New York: Crown Publishers, 2012. 141.
Crown Publishers
2012
Michelle Obama
Crown Publishers
English