Kirsten has ten years experience using food as a means for social change and empowering those most disadvantaged in her community.The work of Lots to Gardens is based on three key principles: 1.Everyone deserves access to good food. 2. Each individual has the unique ability to contribute to their own lives and their community. 3.You can’t underestimate the power of meaningful community engagement as a tool for transforming people’s lives. As she and her organization have transformed the city of Lewiston, she would also bring these same principles and work ethic to the work of the White House Farmer. She is an amazing , energetic young woman.

Eliot Coleman, of Four Season Farm in Harborside, Maine should be the White House Farmer because with his prestige as an author and teacher of gardening, as well as his deep knowledge, he could inspire young workers to make the White House Farm a project that would shock the world with its beauty and fertility.