The White House Organic Farm Project (TheWhoFarm)

This project is the brain child of Daniel Bowman-Simon, the International Ambassador of the Good Thing for the Who Farm. The Who Farm is a non-profit, non partisan organization, whose staff and volunteers are traveling the country hoping to sign people up for their vision: to respectfully request that the 44th president of the United States, whomever that may be, install and utilize an organic food producing farm on the grounds of the White House.

The petition offered up on the Who Farm's website looks quite a bit like a Bill of Rights, although these folks prefer to describe each Article as part of a "recipe." The recipe begins with the Farmers, those who will till the soil and tend the food: schoolchildren and Americans with disabilities. The Eaters will include the President and the Presidential Family, as well as local food pantries and schools in the Washington D.C. area. The Delivery is expected to happen on bicycle, which contributes no pollution and allows this farm's deliveries to operate at nearly zero cost to taxpayers. The Seeds are expected to be heirloom varieties, including stock straight from Thomas Jefferson's farm, Monticello, seeds that go back in northern Virginia over 200 years. (Those are some excellent peaches, by the way.) The Soil is to be fertilized by compost whose raw materials are gathered from the three branches of the U.S. government: the White House, the Capitol building, and the Supreme Court building.

While traveling from New York to San Francisco for Slow Food Nation, where Bowman-Simon gave a short speech on the Soapbox Stage, the Who Farm picked up volunteers to ride along on their bus, formerly owned by Ben Cohen, which is distinctive to say the least. The very top sports a food producing garden, growing in pots which are also able to be spread out on the sidewalk for display at events like Slow Food. Peace signs and American flags hang out the windows, and the cheerful beautiful people inside are happy to spare a few minutes for discussion. Kate Croft, a volunteer on the bus who is working on media for the Who Farm said, "The information on [organic food production] is out there. We're talking to people across the country and using that to create a national database of organic farms and farmers, and we can use that to affect policy."

Indeed, the Who Farm's goal for a White House organic farm is evolutionary food politics. Part of the petition's Preamble reads: "The White House Organic Farm will be a model for healthy, economical and sustainable living everywhere. It will serve as an educational tool and economic aid, and as a means to provide food security in the Nation's Capitol. It will reconnect the Office of the Presidency to the self-sufficient agricultural roots of America's Founding Fathers."

Read more about the Who Farm and sign the petition