Fertile Ground USA...Celebrating the people behind the plow

From the desk of Roger Doiron, founding director of Kitchen Gardners International...

I’m part of a growing group of people who are urging the next President to plant an edible landscape on the White House lawn.  You may have read about this in Ellen Goodman’s latest syndicated column: http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/04/opinion/edgoodman.php

I’d like to invite you to get involved.  Here are some different things you can do, all of which could be accomplished in 5 minutes or less if you’re a real pro:

1)       Sign our online petition here: http://www.eattheview.org/petition

2)       Vote for this idea on the website OnDayOne.org here (click on “rate this idea”): http://www.ondayone.org/node/661

3)       Join our Facebook group and invite your online friends to do likewise here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=28471150870

4)       Forward this e-mail to your e-mail friends, contacts, and other e-mail lists you use

Extra credit assignments:

1)       Grab a banner or widget for your website, blog or social network profile here: http://www.eattheview.org/campaignwidgets

2)       Sign up as a “campaigner” here: http://www.eattheview.org/profiles/members/ (these people are interested in staying connected to this project and pushing it along as it enters new phases)

3)       Identify a high impact, high visibility spot in need of an edible makeover in your town, region, or state and make it over! The more of these we have, the easier it becomes to make our case to the next Eater-in-Chief. In Maine, for example, the first family eats from a kitchen garden planted at the governor’s residence. It if can be done here, it can be done elsewhere.

Thanks for your support and participation,

Roger

PS: I’m in touch with Daniel Bowman Simon of the White House Organic Farm Project (http://www.thewhofarm.org/ ) working towards a similar goal.  Do check out his site and consider signing up to his group’s mailing list.