Food and Freedom
The folks who petitioned the Obama administration to start a vegetable garden at the White House received fresh inspiration earlier this year when the Obamas announced that they would do just that.
Now those same folks are petitioning state governors to celebrate Independence Day in farm-fresh style to inspire yet more Americans to eat local.
The petitions, which will be submitted to governors of all 50 states during the last week of June, will ask that their Fourth of July celebrations will consist of a meal of locally grown food.
The groups behind this are Kitchen Gardeners International, a nonprofit that promotes home gardens, and the Food and Society Fellows of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, which gives fellowships to people to promote sustainable agriculture.
I fear they may not have planned this enough in advance. Don’t governors plan their Fourth more than a week in advance?
But the sentiment is a nice one, and it certainly wouldn’t hurt for the top state officials to promote their own state agriculture.
For more information, visit http://www.FoodIndependenceDay.org.
