A LITTLE LAND g 



AND A LIVING 



support of many families which would otherwise 

 be dependent upon charity. 



Captain Gardner, U. S. A., the first Superin- 

 tendent of the Detroit Vacant Lot Gardens, in 

 a letter said: "It is the opportunity to help 

 themselves that these people want, and it does 

 seem so wrong that in cities people should almost 

 die of starvation and yet thousands of acres held 

 for speculation lie idle within the city limits. It's 

 a sort of a ' dog in the manger ' business. Poor 

 people are often as sensitive about being objects 

 of charity as you or I would be, and as a rule 

 they prefer to work for what they get 

 rather Vacant Lot work than to receive it for 

 nothing." 



It has met with marked success between the 

 waves of speculation, in over twenty cities 

 throughout the United States and also in Eng- 

 land and France, as a means of opening employ- 

 ment to those who are incapable of earning a 

 living elsewhere. Its practicability and efficiency 

 have been recently demonstrated, particularly in 

 Philadelphia, where for years from one to two 

 hundred acres have been kept in cultivation. In 



