The school garden should be situated as near the school as possible. It will thus be much more useful and valuable than if at a distance.

The size of the garden cannot always be regulated, but if possible it should contain sufficient land for plots for the scholars: also a Common Plot, an Experimental Plot, a Fruit Plot and a Flower Border. The…

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A great number of schoolhouses in the United States lack the surroundings that make for comfort and contentment. City school grounds are often so small that planting is out of the question, though, where space permits, it is not uncommon to find them carefully laid out, with a good arrangement of grass plots, flower beds, and shade trees. In towns…

An outdoor classroom supplements and stimulates the environmental conservation education program in a school. As a place for creative learning experiences, it gives depth, meaning, and new dimensions to generalizations about and understandings of man's relation to his environment.

Today, school programs often provide the only opportunity for…

Austin Acres project was initiated by the Subsistence Homesteads Division of the Department of the Interior in December 1933, and transferred to the Resettlement Administration, May 15, 1935. It was completed on December 15 of that year.

Purpose of Project : Initiated to provide workman's garden homes, Austin Acres serves the seasonally and…

Initiated by the Division of Subsistence Homesteads of the Department of the Interior, December 20, 1933, Decatur Homesteads was transferred to the Resettlement Administration, June 1935. The construction was completed May 8, 1935. On November 1, 1936, the project was turned over to the Decatur Homesteads Association, Inc., a private agency, to be…

Cooperative gardening is one of the newer movements for the education of the young and for the elevation of neglected and unfortunate classes; yet it has already become an important factor in the school and home life of many places under the auspices of school authorities, civic leagues, improvement associations, women’s clubs, settlement houses,…

“Among School Gardens” is intended, (1) To answer the questions: What are school gardens? What purpose do they serve? Where are the best? (2) To give such explicit directions that a novice may be able to start a school garden; and to show that even the simplest one can be of great benefit to children. (3) To share with those already interested in…

VEGETABLE GARDENS are an important factor in any subsistence-farming enterprise on account of the large amount of food that can be produced on a small area devoted to vegetables. Fruits, while not of as great food value as vegetables, are essential because they add variety to the diet. Combined with poultry and dairy products, and, under certain…

The nine subsistence-homesteads projects included here were first established by the Subsistence Homesteads Division of the Department of the Interior under the provisions of Section 208 of the National Industrial Recovery Act. Administration of these projects was transferred to the Resettlement Administration in 1935 and was finally lodged within…