Photo from the Birmingham News: Casey Gustowarow and Daniel Bowman Simon are driving around the country in an eye-catching bus, topped with an organic garden, gathering signatures on a petition calling for President-Elect Obama to plant an organic farm on the White House Lawn.

By Thomas Spencer
Oct 14, 2008

Using the White House grounds to produce food is not a new idea. Eleanor Roosevelt planted a Victory Garden during World War 2 to encourage American to increase food production.

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World War 2, blind gardener, piano tuner, Mr Sharper, is filmed kneeling down picking potatoes from his allotment in Manchester and wheeling a barrow round his garden.

Photo image by Seetwist. See larger image here.

This is the time for the Secretary of Agriculture to represent the majority of America’s farmers: [family, small and middle farms].

By Jac Smit, Prez TUAN
Phone: 301 565 3131
4701 Conn. Av. NW
W-DC 20008-5617

The vast majority, over three-quarters, of American farmers produce our food in metropolitan and metropolitan adjacent counties, defined as Urban Agriculture, Metropolitan Farming and Metropolitan Agriculture. Three quarters of our Representatives on Capitol Hill are elected by the residents of the same urban counties. The farm and farm jobs data is at USDA and at County data [see NACO, national assoc. of counties].

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