Food and Nutrition through the 21st Century: The Great Depression

Farmers suffered during the Great Depression from low prices and surplus crops. This article describes the "agricultural depression" and the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933.

An oral history interview with Louella Odessa Saunders Amar who lived on a sharecropping farm for seven years during her childhood. (1 minute, 12 seconds)

An article from a 1936 issue of the Journal of Home Economics on the progress of the school lunch project around the country.

Several short articles published in 1933 on how different communities set up localized school lunch programs.

Published by the USDA in 1936.

An overview of this state-wide agricultural initiative that began in 1929.

This is a short excerpt from "Emergency Relief in North Carolina," published in 1936. It includes a couple of charts showing how many quarts of fruit and vegetables were canned as part of the initiative.

A document published by the NC Cooperative Extension services on home canning.