Kudos to Mrs. Beshear and the UK Department of Agriculture!

This is how we truly provide Supplemental Nutritional Assistance to the underprivileged and those in temporary distress; "Plant, Harvest, Eat", love it! No reason supplemental support cannot be scaled back after one-full years growing season on a path to self-sufficiency.

Perhaps we could clear out the jail (a taxpayer liability) of those having failed to provide monetary support for their children by imposing a working sentence of community crop production (a taxpayer asset). Sentence fulfilled once eighteen years of groceries have been produced, harvested and stored or the appropriate monetary support can be provided.

Hope the U.S. Department of Agriculture catches on and gets back into the agricultural production business, both large and small, instead of subsidizing J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, giant corporate grocery chains and the truck industry by simply transferring wealth to them through the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program from the American worker. --Ed Pipalski