We had a cow,too..all during the WW2 years...We had a large Victory garden and chickens on land about two blocks from our house..We ate well..A lot of canning took place..including peaches and pears from our trees.
We moved to a larger town then and had no more chickens nor a cow after the war..My dad always had a garden going..
I remember the Victory Gardens, we always had a garden but never called it that.
Mother, canned everything and for root veggies, we put them in sand in the cellar-well not potatoes. She canned beef, pork, venison, everything to have food for us. She was a woman alone with four kids to feed. Daddy dear took a powder, I have a hard time with Father’s Day, never knew him.
We had a Victory Garden as well. WIth all of the current landscape being torn up to place houses literaly on top of one another, I do not think that Victory Gardens would be common place like they were should they be needed. Sad!
My parents were city sorts of folks who moved to the country because of me, wanting to raise their kids there for some reason, so they didn’t know much about rural living when they bought two acres way out in the boonies.
Parts of the family moved into our neighborhood and one decided to try raising chickens. That began coming to an end when he tried to kill his first one with a bunch of us little kids around. Some of us were grossed out before we started chasing the headless bird while unc looked on completely dejected.