Amy Bentley’s book on the politics of these places discusses the masculine rhetoric in their “leader’s handbook.” These places were spearheaded by Charles Lathrop Pack’s 1917 commission, whose destructive effects delayed their revival under Claude R. Wickard. A cartoon depicts bombers helping Barney Bear create one of these places, which are called “munition plants” in a propaganda poster of a flag-clad woman. One of these places is preserved in the north end of the Back Bay Fens in Boston. Extension Service pamphlets dispatched advice about these places to complement Florence Hall’s larger-scale labor corps, which revived the Women’s Land Army. Eleanor Roosevelt showcased one of these places on the White House lawn. For 10 points, households on the “kitchen front” tended what domestic plots to supplement wartime produce (“PRO-duce”) rations? ■END■
ANSWER: victory gardens [or war gardens, liberty gardens, freedom gardens, victory farms, or defense gardens; or paraphrases such as gardens for victory; accept National War Garden Commission or “Barney Bear’s Victory Garden” or Victory Garden Leader’s Handbook; prompt on vegetable gardens, community plots, farms, parks, agricultural areas, crop fields, hotbeds, greenhouses, or equivalents of any] (Bentley wrote Eating for Victory. Hall led the US Crop Corps.)
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