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<p align="left"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" size="2" face="Arial">One of Michelle Obama’s legacies may turn out to be of the “garden” variety. <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1244755450_9">Hilary Benn</span>, the U.K. Environment Minister, recently agreed to recommend that <span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1244755450_10">Prime Minister Gordon Brown</span> grow a garden at <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1244755450_11">10 Downing Street</span> to “<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://action..farmland.org/site/R?i=0MV__vVY_hD4A9CbnwpMuA.."><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1244755450_12">rival the White House</span></a>.” <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1244755450_13">Kitchen Gardens</span> International is employing some
more “garden diplomacy,” asking each of America's 50 states <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://action.farmland.org/site/R?i=tYGng-um-VB4jIVjw7z51w.."><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1244755450_14">to declare the 4th of July "Food Independence Day</span></a>.” <br></font></p></span></div><br>
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