I think it's a brilliant idea.
Ed Fallon submitted his letter of application Thursday to President-elect Barack Obama to become the "White House farmer."
Such a position currently does not exist.
"I'm dead serious," said Fallon, a former state representative from Des Moines. "I hope he does something along these lines. Maybe I'm not the person he would like to lead that effort, but I think somebody should."
Fallon got the idea from New York Times writer Michael Pollan, who wrote that the job could be used to "tear out five prime south-facing acres of the White House lawn and plant in their place an organic fruit and vegetable garden."
Pollan noted that Eleanor Roosevelt planted a garden on the White House lawn in 1943, helping to ignite the Victory Garden movement.
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