Mrs. Belmont's Farm for Women

"Within iii days concluding calendar week no less thus 210 girls made upwardly their minds they wanted to endure farmers.  The 210 came from many dissimilar social classes, simply for the most utilisation they were women of education."   The New York Times,  March 5, 1911

I've fallen downwardly a rather deep rabbit hole as well as thus took approximately other plunge into the history of Mrs. Belmonts' Farm for Woman, also known every bit the Brookholt School of Agriculture for Women.

It was established past times Mrs. O.H.P. Belmont inwards 1911 to "reach the working girls who are tied upwardly straightaway inwards unpleasant factories doing monotonous things amongst machines".

I create abhor doing monotonous things amongst machines.  Except when I am mowing. That's non monotonous. That's exercise, fresh air, a fourth dimension to mean value deep thoughts virtually gardening as well as life, a peril to run into all of the garden.

The entire article inwards the NYT spells out the grand innovation for the farm as well as how it was supposed to function every bit a grooming dry reason to innovate metropolis women as well as girls to farming as well as assistance them works life their ain farms.  However, a yr later, it was announced inwards the NYT that the farm would non maintain for a minute season.

While those who worked on the farm that commencement flavor seemed to bask themselves, they didn't quite get got to farming. They plainly "were given to wearing high-heeled slippers as well as dresses poorly adapted to fossil oil function on a farm."  

Which goes to demonstrate that clothes tin brand a divergence when you lot are genuinely working inwards a garden or on a farm.

Thanks to the Library of Congress, nosotros get got gratis online access to several pictures from the i as well as alone flavor the farm was inwards business.

This painting demonstrate is titled "picking worms from plants".

 If you lot are going to endeavor to teach others interested inwards gardening or farming, at approximately signal they demand to endure introduced to worms as well as insects simply I wouldn't create that until you lot were quite surely they were smitten amongst plants as well as flowers as well as domicile grown vegetables.

Then say them virtually worms as well as insects, as well as spiders.

It's skillful to run into they are all wearing hats inwards this picture, simply alone i has on what I would consider suitable gardening clothes.

 Guess which one? She looks sassy plenty to endure a gardener.

More worming.

I would non utilisation this painting demonstrate of a adult woman picking worms off of a works life to entice others to come upwardly on downwardly to the farm.  She looks similar she is disgusted amongst the worms she is picking off those plants.  Not a skillful game human face upwardly for gardening.

What's gardening without hoeing?  And the society of others?

I guess without hoeing, gardening is weeds.

And without companionship, it isn't every bit much fun.

Perhaps this summertime I should works life Miss Carol's School for Gardeners hither inwards my garden? With the proper clothes... possibly I could teach at to the lowest degree i flavor of skillful function out of a few eager students?

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