Fwd: Support School Gardens: Contact Your Representative

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Here's some info to help support school gardens in your state:

 

http://assoc.garden.org/agriculture_bill

 

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Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 4:13 PM

Support School Gardens: Contact Your Representative

 

 

 

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Gardens are powerful educational tools, providing opportunities for children

to experience the natural world as they develop strong academic skills and

positive attitudes toward fresh fruits and vegetables, and learn important

sociological skills that enhance the quality of their lives. Says one

teacher from the Arnold Schwarzenegger Charter Elementary School in

California, “Children demonstrated a better understanding of concepts and

applied them in more sophisticated ways after having instruction in the

garden.”

 

The Sanders amendment funding the program was unanimously approved by the

Senate, and it will now go through the conference committee process with the

House of Representatives.

 

I encourage you to contact your representatives in Washington to urge them

to keep the funding for the program in the final Agriculture Appropriations

bill. Please click here to send a letter in support of the

funding.<http://ads.garden.org/adclick.php?bannerid=584>As you contact

Congress about the bill, I recommend focusing on members of

the conference committee, who are listed below. These are the members who

will have the most sway over whether the funding is ultimately kept in the

bill, and we anticipate that they will make their decision by the end of the

September 2009. Thank you again for all of your help!

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FOR MORE INFORMATION CONACT:

Office of Senator Bernard Sanders

332 Senate Dirksen Office Building

Washington, D.C. 20510

(202) 224-5141

[image: spacer] [image: spacer] Sen. Kohl

(D-WI)<http://kohl.senate.gov/contact.cfm> Sen.

Pryor (D-AR) <http://pryor.senate.gov/contact/> Rep. Farr

(D-CA)<http://www.farr.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content & task=view & id=202>

Sen.

Brownback (R-KS) <http://brownback.senate.gov/public/contact/emailsam.cfm> Sen.

Specter

(D-PA)<http://specter.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=contact.contactform\

>

Rep.

Boyd (D-FL) <https://forms.house.gov/boyd/webforms/issue_.htm> Sen.

Inouye (D-HI) <http://inouye.senate.gov/Contact/Email-Form.cfm> Sen. Bennett

(R-UT) <http://bennett.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=ContactForm> Rep.

Bishop (D-GA) <http://robbishop.house.gov/ZipAuth.aspx> Sen. Cochran

(R-MS)<http://cochran.senate.gov/email.html> Sen.

Bond

(R-MO)<http://bond.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactUs.ContactForm>

Rep.

Davis (D-TN) <https://forms.house.gov/davis/webforms/issue_.htm> Sen.

Harkin (D-IA) <https://harkin.senate.gov/c/index.cfm> Sen. McConnell

(R-KY)<http://mcconnell.senate.gov/contact_form.cfm> Rep.

Kaptur

(D-OH)<http://www.kaptur.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content & task=view & id=152\

>

Sen.

Feinstein

(D-CA)<http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactUs.EmailMe\

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Sen.

Collins

(R-ME)<http://collins.senate.gov/public/continue.cfm?FuseAction=ContactSenatorCo\

llins.EmailIssue>

Rep.

Hinchey (D-NY) <http://www.house.gov/hinchey/zipauth.shtml> Sen. Durbin

(D-IL) <http://durbin.senate.gov/contact.cfm> Rep. DeLauro

(D-CT)<http://delauro.house.gov/contact.cfm> Rep.

Jackson (D-IL)<https://forms.house.gov/jackson/webforms/issue_.htm>

Sen.

Johnson (D-SD) <http://johnson.senate.gov/contact/> Rep. Kingston

(R-GA)<http://kingston.house.gov/ContactForm/> Rep.

Latham (R-IA) <http://tomlatham.house.gov/Contact/> Sen. Nelson

(D-NE)<http://billnelson.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm> Rep.

Obey (D-WI) <http://forms.house.gov/obey/webforms/contact.htm> Rep. Emerson

(R-MO) <http://www.house.gov/emerson/contact.shtml> Sen. Reed

(D-RI)<http://reed.senate.gov/contact/contact-share.cfm> Rep.

Lewis (R-CA) <http://www.house.gov/formjohnlewis/contact.html> Rep.

Alexander (R-LA) <http://alexander.house.gov/?sectionid=7 & sectiontree=4,7>

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