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White House Vegetable Garden Coming This Summer
Roger Doiron lives on less than half an acre in Scarborough, a suburb of Portland, Maine, that's known less for its farms than...
03.08.09
for affluent activists rather than the people in need of healthy and inexpensive food, who were unlikely to have the time or space to benefit from the model garden on the White House lawn."Considering how far the community and organic gardening movement has come in the forty years since People's Park put it on the map, do we still need symbolic stunts? I don't think so," he wrote. "Dig your own potatoes, people!"Belasco and others have pointed to the efforts to reshape the USDA, such as its " People's Garden ," a community garden project on the National Mall, especially given the agency's resistance to such projects in the past. Now, if only Obama were to do something really radical in Washington D.C., it would be to reinstate the Center Market, the public market demolished to make way for the National Archives building, or to resume cattle grazing on the Ellipse.