Ruralizing the City with Acre-Culturist Homecroft Plan
Seattle readers are invited to join a new rural city program called Homecroft to grow food near work. Land specialists from Puget Mill Co offer 400 acre sites for Acro-Culturists with demonstration farms showing layout, fruit trees, poultry houses, and gardens close to downtown Seattle. A sample five room home, lawn, garden, and orchard illustrate the wealth of fresh produce and independence promised by the movement.
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Homecroft Society Aims To Promote Suburban Home Produce
A movement dubbed the Homecroft Society seeks to curb urban congestion and urge families to settle in suburban lots with gardens and poultry. It cites experiments in Duluth Watertown and Los Angeles showing strong savings from self production of potatoes vegetables eggs and poultry. The effort supplements public instruction and lectures, encouraging city workers to use nearby rail and streetcar access to suburban plots for basic food needs.
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Abundance of Vegetation Arranged in Scientific Order
A detailed survey describes orderly rows of crops at Homecroft including potatoes Marshall strawberries head lettuce parsnips and fall spinach. It notes early and late plantings for vegetables and fruit trees with quinces crabapples peaches pears prunes plums and climbing raspberries loganberries along the fence.
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Homecroft Promises City Dwellers a Lush One Acre Life
Puget Mill company promotes Homecroft a new city living plan offering one acre plots with currants gooseberries and ready demonstration farm near Youngstown schools and city transit. The program markets independence health and profit for city workers and families through structured payments and access to Seattle amenities.
Homecroft Movement Presented As Practical City Solution
An editorial from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on June 13 argues that Homecroft offers a practical method to ease living costs and bless mankind. It notes groups across distant areas adopting Homecroft to improve urban life and mentions a Puget Mill Company office bearing the Homecroft sign at 26th Ave SW and Spokane Ave.
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