Farms Get Growing
Producing enough grain, vegetables, meat, milk and more was so important that the Canadian government created the Agricultural Food Board. It organized what farmers grew and how their produce was turned into food as part of the country’s war effort. Sons of farm families and others who worked on farms did not have to serve in the military — their job was to keep things growing. Farms stayed productive through the work of soldiers who served in Canada, work crews who moved from farm to farm helping out, and even prisoners of war.