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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] First Family To Plant White House Veggie Garden
  • Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:50:38 -0700


First Family To Plant White House Veggie Garden
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/03/first-family-to.html

March 18, 2009 11:57 AM

ABC News' Brian Hartman Reports: President Obama's latest
shovel-ready project is close to home -- in fact, right in his own yard. In
an effort to promote healthy eating, the first family will be planting a
vegetable garden right on the White House grounds.

ABC News' Ann Compton and Sunlen Miller report that the new White House
vegetable garden will be dug up and planted on the South grounds of the
White House -- near the fountain but out of view of the main house.

Though the 16-acre complex is maintained by the National Park Service, one
worker who preferred to remain anonymous assured ABC News that National
Park Service staff won't do the sowing and planting. The White House
residence staff will handle that.

As first reported online by food writer Eddie Gehman Kohan, who reports on
food issues related to the Obamas, First Lady Michelle Obama told Oprah
Winfrey's "O" magazine, "We're … working on a wonderful new garden
project."

In the April issue of the magazine, Mrs. Obama tells Winfrey, "We want to
use it as a point of education, to talk about health and how delicious it
is to eat fresh food, and how you can take that food and make it part of a
healthy diet."

A variety of organic food and sustainable agriculture advocates have been
pressing the Obamas to plant such a garden.




  • [Livingontheland] First Family To Plant White House Veggie Garden, Tradingpost, 03/18/2009

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