A campaign which saw British people growing their own vegetables to supplement food rations during World War Two is the subject of a weekend at Witney's Cogges Manor Farm Museum .
The Dig for Victory event at the Church Lane museum on Saturday, July 4 and Sunday, July 5 will chronicle the government programme which resulted in 1.4 million people keeping allotments during wartime.
Range of activities - Former Land Army girl Joan Clifford will give a talk on her experiences on the Saturday at the Oxfordshire County Council-run museum. She will be followed by music from the Wantage-based Pandemonium folk band from 2pm to 4pm.
The will be displays of the well-known Dig for Victory posters on both days, along with children's garden activity trails and the chance to purchase vegetable boxes from Foxbury Farm, Brize Norton. Visitors can admire the working farm museum's walled garden which is packed full of vegetables, herbs and flowers. People can also handle some of the farm's animals, feed lambs, milk cows and meet donkeys. There will be Victorian cooking demonstrations throughout the weekend and butter making on Sunday at 2pm.
What was the Dig for Victory campaign? - The Ministry of Agriculture launched the 'Dig for Victory' slogan one month on from the outbreak of the Second World War. People were encouraged to change their private gardens into mini-allotments. The move provided vegetables at a local level and helped the war effort by freeing up space for military equipment on the shipping convoys. By 1943, over a million tones of vegetables were being grown in gardens and allotments. Parklands and flowerbeds were also transformed into allotments. The Ministry of Agriculture circulated scores of posters encouraging people to grow their own produce.
The Dig for Victory event at the Church Lane museum on Saturday, July 4 and Sunday, July 5 will chronicle the government programme which resulted in 1.4 million people keeping allotments during wartime.
Range of activities - Former Land Army girl Joan Clifford will give a talk on her experiences on the Saturday at the Oxfordshire County Council-run museum. She will be followed by music from the Wantage-based Pandemonium folk band from 2pm to 4pm.
The will be displays of the well-known Dig for Victory posters on both days, along with children's garden activity trails and the chance to purchase vegetable boxes from Foxbury Farm, Brize Norton. Visitors can admire the working farm museum's walled garden which is packed full of vegetables, herbs and flowers. People can also handle some of the farm's animals, feed lambs, milk cows and meet donkeys. There will be Victorian cooking demonstrations throughout the weekend and butter making on Sunday at 2pm.
What was the Dig for Victory campaign? - The Ministry of Agriculture launched the 'Dig for Victory' slogan one month on from the outbreak of the Second World War. People were encouraged to change their private gardens into mini-allotments. The move provided vegetables at a local level and helped the war effort by freeing up space for military equipment on the shipping convoys. By 1943, over a million tones of vegetables were being grown in gardens and allotments. Parklands and flowerbeds were also transformed into allotments. The Ministry of Agriculture circulated scores of posters encouraging people to grow their own produce.
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