Victory Gardens: How America’s Backyards Became Symbols of Hope0

• HEALTH, LIFESTYLE, NEWS, WORLD
• September 23, 2025

When Helen Parker was a young girl in the early 1940s, her small town in Illinois buzzed with an unusual energy. World War II was underway, and her father had gone overseas to fight. At home, her mother and neighbors worked the soil behind their modest clapboard house, planting rows of carrots, beans, and tomatoes.