12th and Wallace Demonstration Garden

12th and Wallace Community Garden (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Moneiro, Almena

Community gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History

Urban gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History

Clipping from Andrea Diehl's The Food Column (Philadelphia Daily News, 14 September 1977) where she discusses the 12th and Wallace demonstration garden. Caption: "Volunteer Garden Coordinator, Mrs. Almina Monteiro of 630 N. 12th Street, asks United States Department of Agriculture Extension Service people about insect problems in her garden plot at the community garden at 12th and Wallace Streets. On the left is USDA administrator W. Neill Schaller, on the right, USDA horticulturist Robert Wearne."

1977

Philadelphia (Pa.)