Re: Out of the Yard and Onto the Fork (and into the New YorkTimes!)

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Suzanne
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Doiron" <roger@kitchengardeners.org>
To: "'Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum'" 
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Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 2:59 PM
Subject: [GWL] Out of the Yard and Onto the Fork (and into the New 
YorkTimes!)


> Anne Raver of the New York Times has done a nice job writing up the home
> garden/victory garden revival now under way and my work in that.  She also
> mentions the online effort KGI has started to turn part of the White House
> lawn back into an edible landscape.  You can read all about it here:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/17/garden/17garden.html
>
>
>
> Once you've read the article, please consider sharing it using the Times'
> "e-mail a friend" feature and their social networking tools.
>
>
>
> It's still a very rare day when the terms "gardening", "peak oil", "local
> foods", "White House" and "food pantry" find their way into a NY Times
> article, but it shouldn't be.  If we can build a little online energy 
> around
> the article and its ideas, we may even manage to catch the attention of 
> the
> presidential campaigns.
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>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Roger
>
>
>
> -----
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>
>
> 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
>
>
>
> Our proposal to plant a kitchen garden on the White House Lawn is the most
> popular proposal on the progressive brainstorming site OnDayOne.org!
>
> Cast your vote in favor of it here: http://www.ondayone.org/node/661
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