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19 Mar 2009

Obamas Prepare to Plant White House Vegetable Garden

On Friday, Michelle Obama will begin digging up a patch of White House lawn to plant a vegetable garden, the first since Eleanor Roosevelt’s victory garden in World War II. There will be no beets (the president doesn’t like them) but arugula will make the cut.

While the organic garden will provide food for the first family’s meals and formal dinners, its most important role, Mrs. Obama said, will be to educate children about healthful, locally grown fruit and vegetables at time when obesity has become a national concern.

  • http://www.nakedjen.com nakedjen

    Didn’t this news just make you smile from ear to ear? I am so happy about this! Really happy.

    In fact, I think I even cried just a bit. I even want to volunteer to go and weed the garden and help pick the vegetables. It’s just wonderful (with the exception that there are no beets!). No beets?!?! Obviously, Obama needs to have beets cooked by me!

  • http://www.armchairactivist.us Barb

    And NO!

    Of course the agriculture industry can’t tolerate the notion that this personal gardening effort is to be conducted without chemicals. A letter of protest to that effect went to Michelle Obama. Sure, a family with children and a pet to protect, are completely unable to grow their own veggies without poisons. Organic gardening must be impossible after all. American industrial interests would never lie to us, would they?

    Here’s a link for the details:

    Organic White House Garden Puts Some Conventional Panties in a Twist

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