

Twelve minutes of root vegetables that'll radicalize your dinner plate.
Poetic tribute to Mrs Turner's vegetable growing prowess, plus the delights of "wartime steaks".
Direction
Mary Field makes soil cinematography genuinely compelling.
Production
Propaganda so cozy you almost forget it's propaganda.

Director
Mary Field
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Britain's 'Dig for Victory' campaign, which turned suburban gardens into morale infrastructure.
Mary Field was one of few women directing UK propaganda films; she later founded the Children's Film Foundation.
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