Urban farming in the West
Subtitle: a New Deal experiment in subsistence homesteads
By: Robert M. Carriker.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780816528202
Subjects: Subsistence farming -- Arizona -- Phoenix -- Case studies; Subsistence farming -- California -- El Monte -- Case studies; Subsistence farming -- California -- San Fernando -- Case studies; Subsistence farming -- Washington (State) -- Longview -- Case studies; New Deal, 1933-1939; United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945
Genres: Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Back-to-the-land + urban plight  part-time farming = New Deal subsistence homesteading; title: Organizing the Division of Subsistence Homesteads; title: The western projects of the Division of Subsistence Homesteads; title: The Phoenix homesteads; title: The El Monte and San Fernando homesteads; title: The Longview homesteads.