... to further the food production campaign, to advise and assist the beginner, and to arrange local propaganda for the Dig For Victory campaign. We do not realize how much Britain owes to the enthusiasm of horticultural-society members, both in improving ...

... companies. War brought a temporary interruption to her studies. While Ryder's were busy supplying vegetable seeds for the Dig for Victory campaign, she spent three and a half years as commandant of an inter-Services convalescent hospital at Hassobury Park ...

... for a short while the nation's number one hero. He was the man who would prevent us from being starved out, who would dig for victory (along with all the gardeners and allotment holders) until he dropped, who would never complain about the hours he worked ...

... which are the all-the-year-round concern of an enterprising organisation. Originally formed to further the war time dig-for-victory campaign, the Federation now acts as the parent body of thirty-eight local societies which serve a very wide area of Berkshire ...