In February of 1973, The Seed was claiming 2900 kids that had been in the program.
By December, 1973, that number had swelled to 5000.
Thats is an increase of 2100 kids in less than 10 months.
The Seed had locations in Miami (closed in late 1973), Ft Lauderdale(closed late 2001), and St Petersburg(closed October 1975) at the time.
The Seed announced in June of 1973 the opening of three new seed locations;
Ft Pierce was due to open immediately with 100 "applicants"(closed after one year, don't have the month yet)
Ft Meyers within 90 days (never opened?)
And a panhandle location (never opened?)
The Seed also later opened a Stow Ohio branch that lasted only a month because Art moved in before he got a variance granted and when granted, a condition was attached that the police and Fire inspectors had access for routine inspections. Art, true to form, refused to allow police and Fire inspectors access and moved out of the building., they moved to cleveland where 60 kids were enrolled, and a tool and die company gave them 30 acres in a nearby suburb of Cleveland called Aurora under the condition that they use it. They planned to operate it as soon as "economically feasible". I no little after this.
The man who donated the use of the St Pete Morgan yacht building, Will Caruthers, tried to get Art to open in his town (Dallas, TX) but apparently those plans fell thru.
Arts ambitious plans were to open a seed location in every major US city or area.
Anyone in Ohio that cares to do a little research as to when and why they closed, please email me or post a response.