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Vilsack Establishes The People's Garden Project | USDA

by P&P
February 12, 2009 10:14AM

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today "broke pavement" on the inaugural USDA The People's Garden during a ceremony on the grounds of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) commemorating the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln. ...

During today's ceremony, Secretary Vilsack announced the goal of creating a community garden at each USDA facility worldwide. ...

The USDA People's Garden announced today will eliminate 1,250 square feet of unnecessary paved surface at the USDA headquarters and return the landscape to grass. The changes signal a removal of impervious surfaces and improvement in water management that is needed throughout the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.

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  • April 05, 2009 05:13AM Naomi Johnson

    Program Coordinator

    Thanks for validating what we are attempting to do in our community, Pleasant Hill Community Garden, to bring the community together, creating an atmosphere where young and old can gather and provide healthy, nutricious food for the neighborhood's elderly.
    We have been working at this for four years now and your actions are giving us special energy. We have begun to change what was a blighted area to a place of beauty and helped the environment.

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