From the White House to the Washington Memorial, it's the famed symbols of American governments past and present that define Washington, D.C. Forget bureaucratic institutions and monuments to the paper pushers that have walked their halls—Mchezaji 'Che' Axum hopes to usurp these dominant images of the nation's capitol: He wants urban farms to come to mind when people think of the District of Columbia. “We’re still in the beginning stages of this food revolution,” says Axum, who leads the Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education at the University of the District of Columbia, one of the country’s only urban land-grant universities. 'A thousand people a month are moving into Washington, D.C. Many of these people are young professionals who are moving in and want healthy, sustainable, local food.
