1917 Thrift Gardens – City ‘Farmers’ in Vegetable Drive

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Movement all over the country has had a healthy influence in cutting down excessively high price of commodities – 700 acres in St. Louis city lots turned under and cultivated in concerted drive on high cost of living (WW1)

The Agen Standard
Ogden, Utah
June 23, 1917

Excerpt:

The deduction drawn by those who are studying the effect of city gardens is that the city “farmer” can break the back of the high price of any vegetable that he is able to produce himself, if he will. It is to be expected that a failure in any line this year will result in special efforts the following season to protect this line.

The thrift garden, an accidental development of the war, seems to be a fixture in American life, judged by its brief career.

The hundreds who are thriftily producing garden truck where only weeds grew before will not only profit by the cash saving in their foodstuffs, but to a man, boy and woman, they are reaping dividends already in better health, strength and spirits.

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