The funny part is we do like the posters suggest. All except the corn. Save a hell of a lot of other seeds though.
I'll be buying veg this year.
I didn't plant the big garden because it produced too much stuff and it was getting too much of a chore to look after. In other words, I was just plain lazy.
The little garden produces more than enough for me and my wife except ..... the automatic watering system failed and I didn't notice until it was too late. It doesn't take many 100° days without water to kill off veggies, about 4 as near as I can figure.
My family grew a large garden during WW II. They were officially called victory gardens, It was that or ration stamps. Also had chickens. In the city of Denver. My sister wore dresses made from chicken feed sacks. The sacks came in a wide variety of prints, and mom would send samples of the sacks she needed when we went to the feed store. Mcalls sold patterns for the sack dresses.
Everybody got behind the war effort. School paper and tin can drives. No new cars available, so you fixed what you had. Far different than today..
They can't exert control over folks who can survive on their own. It is all about control. The more they hand out and redistribute from folks who are self sufficient the more control they have over the masses.Government does not encourage people to be self sufficient.