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October 19, 2009
Kitchen Gardener's International (KGI)
Greetings,
I know you're a gardener and I thought you might be interested in learning about an effective gardening nonprofit that I'm supporting. They're called Kitchen Gardeners International (KGI) and they're a network of 18,000 people from 100 countries who are growing some of their own food and helping others to do the same. You might have read about them in the news earlier this year for their successful campaign to replant a garden at the White House.
With that garden in the ground and producing, they're turning their attention back to the rest of the world and the timing couldn't be more urgent. You might have seen last week that the world's leaders were meeting in Rome to figure out how we're going to feed 9 billion people in 2050 when we can't feed 6.7 billion in 2009.
KGI thinks it has part of the solution to the problem: help and teach more people to feed themselves. They are currently running a new online campaign called "Crush Hunger" to win a prize of $50,000 from the Case Foundation. They're planning on using the funds to support their work in promoting gardens as a solution to hunger and food insecurity around the world. You can read about their campaign and make a donation if you like here:
The nonprofit group that secures the most donations between now and November 6th wins the $50,000 prize. Even if you can't make a donation now, do check out KGI. Their flagship website serves up millions of portions of food and garden how-to information and all of it ad-free which is refreshing compared with some of the other gardening sites out there.
Loni Shapiro
Posted by maxmaddy at October 19, 2009 1:36 PM