Gov. Beverly Perdue did a little digging in the dirt between meetings today, planting a few collards outside the Executive Mansion.
The greens will be donated to the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle, reports Lynn Bonner. Cabbage is also going into the freshly tilled soil at the corner of Person and Jones streets.
The early-morning gardening publicized a national "Plant a Row for the Hungry" campaign, which encourages gardeners to plant extra food for donation.
Perdue's husband, Bob Eaves, an apparent speed-gardener, got quite a few plants in the ground.
The campaign runs until the end of the month, and collards take about 60 days to mature. But the plants do fine in cool weather, and Jill Staton Bullard, food shuttle CEO, said they'll be happy to take them when they're ready.
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Re: First gardener
September 28, 2009 - 8:35am — CeCeWhiteThis video does a great job of capturing the events at the Executive Mansion a couple of weeks ago! We were thrilled to have Gov. Perdue join the Plant A Row for the Hungry campaign and plant some fall vegetables!
If you want to stay in touch with the PAR campaign in the Greater Triangle visit our blog: http://plantarow.wordpress.com/
CeCe White
Communications Associate
Inter-Faith Food Shuttle
www.foodshuttle.org