Enough worrying and wondering! Let’s focus on how easy it can be, really, to find and eat good, affordable food when a community comes together to make it happen.

And because it’s not so easy right now for communities to make it happen, I want the next president of the United States to do something about it. He should turn over the bad-apple cart of policies that have kept American families, neighbors, and local businesses away buying and selling good food from and to each other for so long.

That’s why I just signed on to a fun and exciting campaign calling for our next president to plant the White House lawn in food and “Eat the View.”

Imagine an edible landscape at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue that delights visiting heads of state with just-picked peach compote and supplies inside-the-beltway restaurants with utterly fresh carrots, eggplant, and tomatoes. Imagine how many city parks, municipal building lawns, and schoolyards would go edible, too, if the ‘First Lawn’ literally went first!

Eat the View is part of a campaign by Kitchen Gardeners International to promote planting healthy, edible landscapes in high-impact, high visibility places.

The magic of this campaign is that it can reintroduce America to the long-forgotten fact that good food can literally be right out your front door, whether in your own garden, from a neighbor’s garden, or a commercial garden that grew into supplying local schools, hospitals and restaurants. It all fits and flows together, like our dinner last night: herbs from my garden, chicken and potatoes from families selling at the farmers market, and cucumbers from a neighbor.

The more we sow these local food seeds—from home to commercial garden—the sooner we will see more of this good food in local supermarkets, schools, and hospitals. It takes a village to raise anything! And it takes a leader to both inspire us and clear the policy path for local food entrepreneurs who want to do it all, from building local distribution businesses to investing in community-scale meat processing.

This should be part of what Senators John McCain and Barack Obama are talking about out on the political stump, don’t you think? If so, send your election message to both of them by signing the Eat the View petition and voting for the idea at OnDayOne.org.