Teen Farmerettes were Canada’s answer to Victory Gardens during wartime food shortages

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Teen Farmerettes were Canada’s answer to Victory Gardens during wartime food shortages

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  • Posted on August 7, 2026

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It is a wake-up call to teen girls on TikTok planning their next Coachella outfit or trip to Sephora: During the Second World War, thousands of young men left family farms to enlist, but the crops still needed planting and harvesting. Ontario’s government answered by recruiting high school girls, from ages 16 to 18, to spend parts of spring, summer and fall to fill in for the labor shortage. 

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