A New Victory Garden - The Who Farm

The White House Organic Farm Project is a "is a non-partisan, petition-based initiative to respectfully request that our 44th President oversee the planting of an organic farm on the grounds of The White House, our nation’s First Home, at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, DC."
Visit the web-site to learn more and sign the petition:
http://www.thewhofarm.org/about/

I first heard about this in this post over at The Reluctant Soil blog.
I found her blog through a blog I've been visiting periodically for at least a couple of years: This Old Crack House.
What the hell am I reading, right?
It's not as weird as it sounds. It's a giant old house in Dayton, OH that the blogger is rehabbing into a home.

Anyway, I thought the WHOFarm was pretty cool. It would be a great representation of what we hope we elected.

Other links:
Wikipedia's Victory Garden

The Victory Garden - a site dedicated to the backyard garden's revival

Oregon Trip - Post 9 - City Hall & Mayor History

Here is Troutdale's City Hall:


And this sign about Early Women Mayors:


It says,
"Early Women Mayors
In 1913, one year after Orgeon women won the right to vote, Clara Larsson was elected the mayor of Troutdale, defeating her male opponent, S.A. Edmundson, by five votes. A quarter Indian, daughter of the pioneer family Latourell family, she was one of the first women mayors in the state. In 1914, Troutdale voters approved Prohibition and closed all of the town’s saloons, including one belonging to the Mayor’s husband, John.The city elected a second woman mayor, Laura Harlow in 1924. She was also a deputy sheriff and was the wife of Lou Harlow, whose father was Capt. John Harlow, Troutdale’s founder."

I think it's probably safe to say that Clara Larsson and her husband, John, had a bit of a public disagreement going on, huh?
That must have been interesting (and possibly entertaining); certainly a story or two there, anyway.