Approved June 25, 1936, the project was began by the Resettlement Administration and developed by the Farm Security Administration of the Department of Agriculture. The purchase of 12,915 acres of cut-over land for development into farm units was completed in February, 1938.

PURPOSE OF PROJECT: To promote farm ownership among tenants who could…

Started as a Federal Subsistence Homesteads project in March, 1934, the El Monte Homesteads was transferred to the Resettlement Administration in June, 1935. Construction work was completed October 15, 1935.

The project was designed to enable low-income families to supplement their earnings by raising much of their own food on garden plots of…

MANY FAMILIES with small incomes can lower their living costs by living on a small piece of land and growing their own food, and at the same time enjoy a greater quantity and variety of fresh and canned vegetables and fruit. Gardening and poultry raising on a small piece of land is about all an employed man and his family can care for by hand.…

Drummond was started by the Resettlement Administration 1, 1936, in cooperation with the Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture. The project is now under the supervision of the United States Forest Service, Chequamegon National Forest.

Purpose of Project: The project was initiated to re-establish a group of destitute families stranded…

Initiated by the Division of Subsistence Homesteads of the Department of the Interior in December, 1933, Dalworthington Gardens was transferred to the Re- settlement Administration by Executive Order May 15, 1935. The project was completed January 4, 1936. On September 1, 1937, it was placed under the jurisdiction of the Farm Security…

Beauxart Gardens was initiated by the Division of Subsistence Homesteads of the Department of the Interior in December, 1933. It was transferred to the resettlement Administration May 15, 1935 and completed October 15 of the same year. On September 1, 1937, it was placed under the jurisdiction of the Farm Security Administration.

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With the decline of agricultural prices after the World War, it became evident that many people had established themselves on land unfit for successful farming. After the economic crisis of 1929-30, the pressure of population on the land increased and the distress of those in the poorer areas grew steadily worse. In order to maintain oublic…

"SUBSISTENCE HOMESTEAD" consists of a modern but inexpensive house and outbuildings, located on a plot of land upon which a family may produce a considerable portion of the food required for home consumption.

THE DIVISION of Subsistence Homesteads is engaged in developing com-munities composed of from twenty-five to two or three hundred of such…

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This bulletin undertakes to answer the questions that are asked most frequently by people who plan to take up part-time farming. As you read the bulletin, questions not answered in it will probably come to mind. You may want to know more about farming in a certain area, or more regarding certain farm specialties. If you are actively interested in…

FRESH VEGETABLES for an average family may be grown upon a large back yard or city lot.

The use of fresh vegetables adds variety to the diet and improves the health of the people.

The production of vegetables at home relieves transportation difficulties and solves the marketing problem.

The city home garden utilizes idle land and spare…

This circular contains rules for beginning work, instructions for selecting the tenth-acre garden plot and preparation of the soil, setting the plants, and cultivating the garden. Later you will be sent a circular on tomato diseases and insect pests.

Please keep these circulars; read the instructions carefully and refer to them often. You will…

The chief mission of this little booklet is that of emphasizing the following points:

1. The awakening of a greater interest in practical nature lessons in the public schools of our section.

The thoughtful educator realizes that a very large part of the child’s education must be gotten outside of the four walls designated as class room. He…

The author has tried to make this little volume so full of useful hints and practical instruction for young people, teachers, and parents, that it will lead to the making of many good home gardens in both city and country.

The school garden movement should have for its main object the starting of home gardens by both young and old. All other…

During the past few years there has been a growing interest in school garden work in this country. While the movement here is comparatively new, it has for a long time been a feature of the educational work in continental Europe. It is obvious that no set rules can be laid down for the management of a school garden. In the heart of a city the work…

From the point of view of this book the school garden is any garden in which a boy or girl of school age takes an active interest. It may be simply a tiny seedling growing in a little flower-pot in-doors or an extensive series of garden crops growing in a large garden out-doors. So far as crops are concerned, however, the scope of the book is…

Those who are charged with the direct presentation of school garden work to children will recognize that the point of view for city children must be different from that for country children. As a rule, children in rural districts are familiar with the fundamental operations of the garden — preparation of the soil, planting the seed, and the…

School garden work has become so general within the past five years and literature relative to the same so abundant that facts of the nature furnished in earlier reports would be superfluous, viz, what to plant, the distances apart of the rows and of the seeds in the row, and like detailed information. Teachers need now to view the garden from a…

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The child at play in make-believe and game, at work in garden, is thus a true technodramatist, from whom would-be educators, be they scientific or technical, have much to learn before they can adequately teach.

But life and education are more than industry, and even art ? Assuredly; but so also is a child's garden. Here in this modest little…