USDA Workers Grow Gardens for Soup Kitchens and Food Pantries

Spearheaded by Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been creating local gardens across the United States and the globe and donating the food to pantries and soup kitchens. The effort began last year when Vilsack began a People’s Garden outside the USDA headquarters in Washington by jackhammering a stretch of asphalt parking. Today, 80 employees at the DC office volunteer to tend the garden. At least 255 USDA gardens have been established so far, spanning from North Carolina to South Korea, and have produced nearly 30,000 pounds of produce for charitable causes. The name “People’s Garden” was inspired by the original name given to what is now the USDA by Abraham Lincoln when he created it in 1862: The People’s Department.
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