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Chicago's Poor Prove the Value of Gardens and Crop-Raising on Eighth-Acre Plots
EVERY city gardener would ¦ be a
homesteader if he or if she could!
But the span of miles and money
between his (or her—for women are
in this) little plot and a Dakota ranch is
greater than can be bridged by a mere desire.
The eighth-acre farms of the Chicago
City Gardens Association are planted and
hoed and harvested by men and women
who rarely can make one day reach the
next. Yet in every one of the gardeners
who has watched the seed he planted grow
to maturity, under his care, is implanted a
hunger for the soil and for a bit of land he
can call his own and use just as he. pleases.
Between these gardeners
and their hearts' desire is a
barrier of money for railroad
fares, for the building of
claim shanties and the buying
of farm machinery. And
this money must be saved
from an income which at best
barely suffices for a . day to
day living. The strength of
the desire is ' shown by the
small but slowly increasing
number of these miniature
farmers who bring their
desire to realization.
Among these are two young
women who took their primary
lessons in farming from
M. E. Greene, an experienced,
expert farmer who
was head-gardener on eighthacre
farms in the first tract
of idle land: loaned to the
City Gardens Association to
be used for little gardens for the poor.
Evelyn Fisher, who sold books in the
loop ' all day, was among the first to apply
for and receive one of these eighth-acre
gardens. She knew nothing of farming or
gardening^ except what she remembered
vaguely from her childhood on a farm.
She only knew that a garden is a great
good! But Mr. Greene is a past master in
the art of teaching concentrated gardening,
and Miss Fisher was surrounded by
half-a-dozen nationalities, of transplanted
farmers and truck gardeners who were
wresting a living out of a city job while
they found their recreation with a hoe.
From each of these she learned something
E STELLINE M. B ENNETT
The Russians taught her that even the
sunflower can be utilized as food and she
learned the process of grinding the sunflower
seeds into such a satisfactory flour
substitute that a growth of impromptu
sunflowers on the prairie never can bring
the distress to her that it does to the average
farmer.
For two years Miss Fisher spent most of
her Sundays, her early dawns and the cool
of her evenings working her garden and
learning from her fellow gardeners. Her
days she spent behind her book counter.
She ' eliminated all luxuries from her life
and as many necessities as possible.. She
sold garden truck to friends, acquaint-
Italian Families at Work in Their Own Gardens
ances and landladies and added to her savings
account.
At the end of two years Miss Fisher had
saved a little money and accumulated a
vast fund of garden lore. Taking the two,
she went out to Presho, South Dakota,
and took up a homestead. Her venture
might be compared to the-atfempt of a
carver of tiny Chinese ivories, to mould
without other experience, an heroic statue
for a park; But Miss Fisher was not
daunted. She felt within herself'that what
• she had been able to do successfully on a
. baby scale, she could manage on a grownup
ranch by expanding a little at a time.
So she began with a garden and a few acres
city garden plot where she dug and hoed
and dreamed about a bigger farm than her
eighth-acre, and she too contrived by close
economy and thrift and sacrifice, to save a
"-little money. After several years she was
missed one spring from the city gardens.
But nobody made any definite inquiries.
These gardeners come and go in such large
uncertain numbers that no one keeps track
of all the individuals from season to season.
It is more than four years now since
Elvira Drew disappeared from the .little
garden community but last . spring Mr.
Greene had a letter from her at Iroquois,
S. D. She had bought an abandoned
Homestead and _nad finished
paying for it. Her kitchen
garden, she wrote, had been
from the first the envy of all
the ranchers in the vicinity.
She had learned to raise
wheat, corn and oats profitably
but she needed expert
advice about potatoes, so
she .was writing back to her
first instructor.in gardening
to know how to prepare the
soif how to plant, and cultivate
them, and how to fight
potato bugs. The advice
was hers for the asking.
Among others who have
gone from Chicago's city
gardens to wider fields' and
broader acres, are two widows
who succeeded in getting
farms on easy installments
in Wisconsin; and
several men who have been
able to exchange uncongenial hard labor
in a setting of brick walls and smoke, for
truck gardening somewhere in the open
country near enough the city to make
fares for the family to the new home possible,
and to insure a market —
Tony Ricker, a machinist and the father
of a large family, was so enamored of his
eighth-acre that after a few years he got
a little five-acre plot in an outlying district.
At the end of the first year, he
dropped in to see Mr. Greene and consult
with him about soils and crops.
I m going out in the country in the
spring," he said. "I don't know how I
manage. But I manage. I can't bother
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about the raising of good garden truck.
From the Italians she learned how to
raise peppers and quantities of salad stuffs
and how to make lettuce head up solid and
crisp. She learned too the food value of
plenty of green salad and the various uses
to which Italians put green peppers and
tomatoes. She learned how to fry green
peppers in olive oil and how to make a dry
paste from the under-sized or over-ripe
tomatoes, that could be used all winter in
that most delectable of all sauces that the
of wheat, and the wonder of her kitchen
garden commanded such respect and admiration
from the neighboring homesteaders
and older ranchers, that they gladly
proffered their wisdom and experience
concerning the growing of grain and the
raising of stock.
That was over five years ago. She has
a title to her land now and could come
back to the city if she chose. She does
not choose. Why stand behind a counter
with only five acres. I gotta have more.
One family, which for years was the
despair of the United Charities, has developed
into a self-supporting, self-respecting
unit. The wife's tomato paste is famous
among her neighbors and she has
enough dried pumpkins, onions, peppers
and garlic hanging on strings for her entire
winter supply, as well as an adequate
amount of peas, beans, corn, and tomatoes
canned and put away. The whole family
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all day and take orders from other people works in the garden and only a few years
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Italian puts on his spaghetti and ravioli. when you can. earn a good living doing the ago they lived almost wholly on charity,
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