The Dig for Victory campaign destroyed the British countryside, a landowner has claimed, after finally making her family farm pay by taking it back to its pre-war state.. Writer Isabella Tree and ...

He wrote a memoir for a local publication in 2005 on war-time Doncaster with Dig for Victory as the slogan." Jane Garner. Jane Garner: "My mum, Jean Garner (née Durbin), in Birmingham, 1942 or 1943.

Last week, British agriculture minister David Heath warned of “digging for survival” due to food shortages. He revived memories of the Second World War's Dig for Victory campaign, which is ...

In 1942 the Government brought out a theme 'Dig for Victory' which was intended to encourage everyone to grow their own vegetables. In our back yard there was a piece of land with a large plum ...

John Raeburn, who died on July 9 at 93, was the agricultural economist who, as head of the Agricultural Plans Branch of the Ministry of Food, set up the “Dig for Victory” campaign that fed Great ...

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) throws open the gates of the Chelsea Flower Show today with a message for Britain's gardeners: the humble urban backyard can help save the planet.

Pupils of the Harrogate Grammar School "dig for victory" on their own allotments. “That’s the last time there has been any attempt to quantify what has been produced by domestic growing.

It is 80 years since the Dig for Victory campaign, a war-time Ministry of Agriculture initiative to help to keep the population healthy during rationing following the naval blockade that saw food ...

The country was entreated to 'Dig for Victory' and therefore every available space was cultivated. My father dug up the lawn and planted vegetables which supplemented our diet. The only trouble ...