Urban agriculture, DC-style
January 21, 2009 at 9:13 pm 1 comment
It may be beyond freezing cold on the streets and in the backyards of our fair city, but the Providence Journal has been thinking about Victory Gardens lately.
Last week Sheila Lennon blogged about the “Eat the View” campaign urging the Obamas to plant an organic vegetable garden on the White House lawn. But it’s nowhere to be found on the Projo website???
The ETV website has a petition you can sign and a timeline of White House landscape history, with highlights like John Adams’s vegetable patch, Thomas Jefferson’s fruit trees, Edith Wilson’s grazing sheep, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s victory garden.
Today, Projo Food Editor Gail Ciampa wrote about the National WWII Museum‘s upcoming project, “Kitchen Memories: A National Conversation about Food During World War II.” The museum invites Americans to send in their personal recollections about wartime foodways, from food rationing to growing victory gardens. While you’re at it, Rhode Islanders, send your victory garden memories to me, too!
Even more Victory Gardens in the Projo as of Sunday: “Victory gardens reappear.”
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1. sarah murphy | January 22, 2009 at 3:47 pm
The Who Farm (www.thewhofarm.org) is making a similar campaign for an organic garden at the white house. They were recently featured in The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/06/AR2009010600523.html?hpid=smartliving