Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 157, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1917 — Bringing Country to City. [ARTICLE]

Bringing Country to City.

Denmark has solved the problem of gardens for city dwellers in a particularly efficient manner, according to the American-Scandinavian Review. An article entitled “Bringing the Country to the City” tells how 40,000 garden plots have been added to the productive area of Denmark through the utilization of vacant lots and waste lands in or near cities. The land bought or leased by a company, which does all the preliminary work of building roads and fences, laying water pipes, installing a sewerage system, and preparing the soil for cultivation. It is divided up into small gardens, which are rented at a price of $2 to $4 for the summer. Many families raise enough vegetables for their own use and sell a considerable amount besides. Others prefer to build a little arbor and plant a flower garden, which becomes their refuge from the grime of the city.