CHAPTER III 



VACANT LOT GARDENING 



Charity vs. Self-Help Opportunities Assistance Co- 

 operation Little Government Needed Cost Health 

 and Success A Variety of Returns One-half Acre 

 Large Profits Land, not Capital, Necessary. 



No nation was ever overthrown by its farmers. Chaldea and 

 Egypt, Greece and Rome, grew rotten and ripe for destruction not 

 in the fields but in the narrow lanes and crowded city streets, and 

 in the palaces of their nobility. So let us thank God and take cour- 

 age as we see in our day the movement countryward, and the 

 " abandoned farm " and lot no longer abandoned. Surely the 

 history of creation is repeating itself, and again is the Lord God 

 taking man and putting him in a garden to dress it and keep it. 



Da. FKAXCIS E. CLARK. 



T Y 7HAT unskilled labor with little capital can 

 * * do on quarter acre plots of poor soil, well 

 situated, is best shown by the Vacant Lot Gar- 

 dening Associations of various cities. 



Placing the half sick, the disabled, worn-out 

 people and the unemployed on vacant lots, where 

 they can employ themselves raising their own 

 food, is now no experiment, but an important 



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