Washington State Governor Gary Locke - Sell him on Community Gardens
- Subject: [cg] Washington State Governor Gary Locke - Sell him on Community Gardens
- From: "Honigman, Adam" A*@Bowne.com
- Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:08:26 -0500
Hey Washington State Community
Gardeners!
Governor Gary Locke's rebuttal
to the State of the Union Address was pretty impressive yesterday night.
Do you think he can be suckered into visiting a community garden with his staff
and speechwriters ( maybe the garden being grown from the "Million Flower
Compost") and get the community garden idea as a metaphor for all of us pulling
together to make America better?
If Governor Locke gets the
idea and uses community gardeners as a metaphor for a positive America
( especially growing food for low income citizens) maybe the
Republicans, hearing a good metaphor that they'd want to co-opt might
see the cg movement as something to support thorough a line
item in an agriculture bill, or through that "faith based
iniative/volunteer" bill that Dubya mentioned last night.
If we can get something like
the Federal urban agriculture / community development grant dollars of
the late seventies/early eighties restored, maybe we might be able to expand
programs, promote the community garden idea thoughout more of this country - an
antidote to that other metaphor, "Bowling Alone."
But first we need to get some
politicians, wine, cheese and oysters into a gussied up Seattle community garden
and someone - maybe Seattle's mayor or its cg friendly city councilpersons?
to invite Governor Gary Locke and his speechwriters in...
A thought for a snow
Wednesday,
Best
wishes,
Adam
Honigman
Volunteer, Clinton Community
Garden, NYC
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