Country Life
Tr1E, first six .members of a colony of Homecrofters, originated by Professor Scott, are just going into residence " by Cheltenham. The group of allotment homes, if I may use the phrase,. will be opened by Lord Beauchamp on November 19th. .Readers of. the Spectator took great interest in the scheme when it was launched in a letter to the Spectator by the founder and sympathetically urged by Mr. St. Loe Strachey. . Good progress has been made ; and more will be said later about the opening of the first year's experience and of the prizes that are to be given by the Spectator for the most skilful producers ; but for the moment I anticipate the date in order .to say a word about the extension of the principle in other places than Cheltenham. Homecrofting
has been defined as " the art of making your own food with your own hands so that you do not need to buy it " ; but in Professor Scott's scheme the practisers of this most necessary art are to be industrialists, who with wife and family produce food as a recreation in spare hours.
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