Movie

Making a Compost Heap (1942)

• November 18, 1942
• 4m

• Documentary

Overview

This is a half-reel film telling its audience how to use inedible parts of plants from their garden to make compost. It seems pretty basic stuff, but there were a lot of city boys working in what were called Victory Gardens in the United States. Letting them know how easy it was to make compost for a better truck garden meant a lot of fresh food on the home front.

Director

Margaret Thomson