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VICTORY GARDEN: Cut grocery bills and healthcare costs with one simple backyard habit

More than 20 million households grew Victory Gardens during World War II, providing a practical solution to food security

By Ted Jenkin Fox News

Published March 13, 2026 7:00am EDT

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Walk through any grocery store in America right now, and you’ll see the same thing in every aisle. People staring at prices like they’re reading a foreign language.

A box of cereal at $8. A bag of chips for $6. Eggs and ground beef feel like luxuries. A simple couple of bags of groceries easily top $150. Washington politicians argue about inflation, supply chains and corporate profits. But there’s one obvious solution nobody seems to talk about anymore.

What if Americans had a mandate to grow their own food again?

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That’s not a radical idea. It’s actually how this country operated for most of its history.

Today, many middle and high school students graduate without knowing the most basic food skills, including how to plant a tomato, grow lettuce, compost soil or understand how long it actually takes food to grow.

We teach calculus, Shakespeare and trigonometry. All valuable subjects, but they won’t lower grocery prices. But somehow we’ve decided that food literacy and survival — meaning the ability to grow and understand food is simply neglected.

In an era of rising grocery prices that won’t go backwards no matter who is in the White House, that’s a huge........

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