PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Trelstad, Brian
TI  - Little Machines in Their Gardens: A History of School Gardens in America, 1891 to 1920
AID  - 10.3368/lj.16.2.161
DP  - 1997 Sep 21
TA  - Landscape Journal
PG  - 161--173
VI  - 16
IP  - 2
4099  - http://lj.uwpress.org/content/16/2/161.short
4100  - http://lj.uwpress.org/content/16/2/161.full
AB  - “Little Machines in their Gardens: A History of School Gardens in America, 1891 to 1920” explores the rise and decline of the school garden movement in the United States. The paper first documents the early history of the gardens and establishes them as a national phenomenon that weaves together Progressive governance, the Back to Nature Movement, and early education reform. The paper then seeks to explain the sudden demise of the school gardens after 1920 by exploring the changes in American urban life and the nature of the professions that promoted the gardens