[Community_garden] An edible "first lawn": your 5 minute homeworkassignment

[Rebekah.L.Filipello at wellsfargo.com]

This is just such a fabulous idea!  Did the homework, signed the
petition and included the following comments:

"Furthermore, I would recommend that all the White House grounds should
be maintained using organic and watersaving practices: mulches,
composting, worm farms for all kitchen garbage, etc. The famous Rose
Garden should be maintained using natural controls. All groundskeepers
should be required to be graduates of the Permaculture Design course, so
that maintenance of and future landscape designs for the grounds can
become a sterling example of sustainable gardening techniques. It's good
enough for Prince Charles!"

Dirigo!

Beki  (former Mainer)

-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Doiron [mailto:roger at kitchengardeners.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 10:01 AM
To: community_garden at list.communitygarden.org
Subject: [Community_garden] An edible "first lawn": your 5 minute
homeworkassignment

I'm part of a growing group of people who are urging the next President
to plant a food garden 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

 

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 <http://www.kitchengardeners.org/2005/10/about_roger_doiron.html> Roger
Doiron 

Founding Director, Kitchen Gardeners <http://www.kitchengardeners.org/>
International

Fellow, Food and Society Policy <http://foodandsocietyfellows.org/>
Fellowship Program

3 Powderhorn Drive, Scarborough, ME 04074, (207) 883-5341

 

Tell the next President to " <http://www.eattheview.org/> Eat the View" 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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