USDA Home and Garden Bulletin

The USDA Home and Garden Bulletin was a series of publications released by the United States Department of Agriculture from 1951 to 2003, totaling 267 issues.

[1] These bulletins would contain information on various subjects such as budgeting, canning and jarring foods,[2][3] or nutrition.

Although all issues were published by the USDA, often issues would be prepared and produced by smaller groups within the department, such as the Human Nutrition Research Division,[5] Office of Information,[6] or the Consumer and Food Economics Research Division.

The reasons for this vary, but a large factor is urbanization, which has led to less family farms.

[12][13] Many topics covered in the bulletin were taken up by other divisions of the USDA after new publications stopped, such as the National Institute of Food and Agriculture.