Showing posts with label Northern Ireland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Northern Ireland. Show all posts

Friday, January 23, 2009

A Good Meal.


potato.

In the 1940's Northern Ireland created a "Grow More Food" program, which included ploughing, planting, and harvesting the land in front of the Parliament building. This leads me to wonder how many community garden plots, tomato plants, stalks of corn, zucchinis, summer salads, loaves of bread, might we cull from the White House lawn or the Washington Mall?

World hunger statistics in real time:

Photo by M McNeill18 Mar 1940