> However, I would be willing to bet that if we went into the
> literature put out by USDA and others about the Victory gardens
> of WWI and WWII we would find the figures to answer this
> question.
The point about WWII is indeed interesting. Food self sufficiency
is, in part, what the battle of the Atlantic was all about. England
had brought in the "Victory Gardens" in yards and parks, and had
its existing agricutltural system, and of course rationing. The Nazi
submarine campaign was, in part an effort to starve England into
submission. Thus convoys remained critical because it became evident that
even with these food growing measures the amount of food produced
domestically would be inadeqaute by itself and starvation would set in.
Jonathan Haskett