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This is very, very exciting!!
From the good people at Kitchen Gardeners International and Eat The View:
“Obamas to Plant White House Vegetable Garden”
On Friday, March 20th, 2009, 23 third graders will join First Lady Michelle Obama on the South Lawn of the White House to break ground on an 1100 square foot kitchen garden that will provide [...]

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Sec. of Agriculture

Michael Pollan for Secretary of Agriculture!
Sign the Petition!

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This Historic Moment

Like I said, I’ll keep politics out of this blog, but if you want to know how I, as a historian (did y’all know that I’m a historian?), feel about what happened last night, please check out my personal blog, Tayloropolis.
And there isn’t anything incendiary or aggressive in that post.  So if you’re hurting about [...]

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Today’s the day!

Don’t forget to vote!  Pete and I are going today after work.  I’m bracing for long lines!

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2 Things:

1.  Don’t forget that tomorrow is Election day!  No excuses!
2.  I’ve started writing a new blog (God help us all!) for my CSA, Colchester Farm.  I’m moderating it, in a way, and doing most of the posting, but we will have ocassional guest posts by the couple that runs it and other volunteers.  I hope [...]

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Know your food sources

Laurie at Slowly She Turned wrote a post today asking her readers to take action on a USDA ruling.  I’m going to post her entry here in entirity, but I do hope you visit her site if you aren’t reading it already.
Thanks, Laurie! 
CLOSE THE COOL LOOPHOLE
Comments due by September 30, 2008
The 2002 and the 2008 [...]

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Eat the View

There is a wonderful movement going on right now called Eat the View.  It’s a push to try and get the next president to plant a garden on the White House lawn.  This is a genius idea, and it’s happened before.  Imagine the message it would send to people to see something like this on [...]

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I solemnly swear that I will try to keep politics out of this website.  I’m too passionate to be moderate.  That said, this actually does apply to the focus, so I thought I would include it.  My friend Pam(please check out her beautiful website-she has a green thumb to envy!) linked to the website of Sciencedebate2008 [...]

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