DeWitt Clinton Park Children's Farm Garden (New York City, USA, 1902–1932)
New York, United States · Operator: Frances Griscom Parsons
Overview
A children's farm garden that ran from 1902 to 1932 in DeWitt Clinton Park on Manhattan's west side. It held 356 vegetable plots of 4 by 8 feet, each assigned to one child, along with flower beds, observation plots and a pergola under which night classes were held. It was discontinued in 1932 when a 250-foot (76 m) wide swath on the west side of the park was removed for highway construction.
Citizen participation
Each plot was assigned to an individual child; Parsons wrote that "five hundred or more little ones from this neighborhood farm their little plots throughout the season." Night-school classes in domestic economy were taught to the farm children in rooms beneath a pergola overlooking the Hudson River.
Operating model
A children's farm garden laid out inside a New York City park and championed by Frances Griscom Parsons. It was the first of its kind in New York City and formed the park's centrepiece through its early decades.
Impact
An early example of a children's farm garden inside a city park — the first of its kind in New York City, sustained for three decades before highway construction took the land. It is also a clear case of urban growing space being displaced by infrastructure.
Crops
- 野菜
- 花
Scale
4フィート×8フィートの野菜区画が356、それぞれ1人の「小さな農民」に割り当てられていた。
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